Thomas Hood Quotes
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I could scrape water off horses all day long. That would never get boring.
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Producing all my own songs and refusing to go to the hot producer. That's the biggest risk I've taken so far.
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Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.
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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
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If someone is going to criticize what you've written and you believe in what you've written then you should respond.
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What I learned with tech companies is I gotta give people room to experiment, and also to make what might later on be a mistake. This is the attitude I want to build within San Francisco - give some time to the tech community.
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Those of us lucky enough to fall in love with Asia know that it's an affair that's as long as it is resonant.
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I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.
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Audiences are smart, and they don't need to be spoon-fed everything.
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Death is the easiest of all things after it, and the hardest of all things before it.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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For women, even if she's nerdy enough to be Steve Jobs, she's undateable.
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I was this little kid writing songs. I look back at having that dream, and it's weird. Being able to do it and live out your dream on any scale is amazing. I don't take any of it for granted at all.
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I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.
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I really want to see New Zealand; it's a beautiful place.
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As a novelist, I tell stories and people give me money. Then financial planners tell me stories and I give them money.
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Every status update you read on Facebook, every tweet or text message you get from a friend, is competing for resources in your brain with important things like whether to put your savings in stocks or bonds, where you left your passport, or how best to reconcile with a close friend you just had an argument with.
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Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
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I'm not jumping into anything fast. I'm an actor that likes to choose my work and there's an element of good taste to my work.
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Most of these wild animals depart in autumn when the sun changes their behavior and they feel the urge to migrate or go off alone. While they are with us, however, they become characters in my books, articles, and stories.
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You must have heard that last autumn I almost got married, but I am glad I realized in time that it had been an illusion, all those beautiful things. Although I have always lived for art, I am also attracted to the beautiful in life and so I sometimes do things that seem strange for me.
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Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
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How bravely Autumn paints upon the sky The gorgeous fame of Summer which is fled!
