Thomas Hood Quotes
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Wine makes a man more pleased with himself; I do not say it makes him more pleasing to others.
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In the 19th century, a lot of people were against outlawing child labour, because to do so would be against the very foundations of a free market economy: 'These children want to work, these people want to employ them... what is your problem? It's not as if anyone has kidnapped them...'
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I'm admittedly not that into the Internet.
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Now I've literally become neighborhood watch. I call 911 on people. I'm the old man driving 25-miles-per-hour down Sunset.
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If you are an investor who's retired and hopes to live off the income that your portfolio is generating, then we would focus just on the dividend yield.
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Most of the books that I've written have been focused on, sort of, the individual, and sort of, either a voice, a personal voice, or a kind of transforming event where they step forward to fight for something they value.
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I always had a belief in myself, and I started wondering if it was founded.
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Fear requires a desire to exist in the future.
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We are a multitude of selves, and the sooner we learn that, the better. And in that rich alliance of psychological Aspects lies the very secret of our practical operative stability. Only because we change our positions constantly in reference to the psyche and the world are we able to manipulate physically and translate inner experience into sense terms.
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Without taste genius is only a sublime kind of folly. That sure touch which the lyre gives back the right note and nothing more, is even a rarer gift than the creative faculty itself.
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It may be made a question whether men grow wiser as they grow older, anymore than they grow stronger or healthier or honest.
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You know that family is going to be there for you no matter what. My dad gave me a freakin' kidney!
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I'm a lazy creature when I'm not acting.
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Why should you ask blood be spilled for a cause that is not in the interest of the American people?
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Those who cannot condemn the past repeat it in order to remember it.
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We never settle for 'This is good enough.' It always has to be amazing because that's the kind of music we'd want to listen to, and that's the kind of music we want to give to other people.
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The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations.
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When your protagonist bores you, you're in trouble.
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There is something mysteriously powerful that can happen when young, inchoate minds come into contact with older and more worldly ones in a spirit of intellectual and creative endeavour - if I believed in progress, I suppose that's what I'd call it.
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The biggest bore of all is he who is overflowing with congratulations
