Thomas Hood Quotes
While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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I'm dyslexic, and it takes me longer to memorize and to embody the character so I can really own it.
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You can oppose reparations all you want, but you got to know the facts. You really, really do.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I like manual things, doing things with my hands, the feeling of touching.
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You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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The fact that anyone would find me sexy is very, very flattering, but ridiculous. I so don't believe it. But I'm flattered. Truth is, I don't lift a finger to look sexy. Ever.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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People will always want a free lunch.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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Nothing is ever what you want it to be. The harder you grab for it, the more deeply it cuts. And it mocks you for being foolish enough to reach for it at all. You come to fear touching anything at all, because you know that if you do, it will become terrible.
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In what terms should we think of these beings, nonhuman yet possessing so very many human-like characteristics? How should we treat them? Surely we should treat them with the same consideration and kindness as we show to other humans; and as we recognize human rights, so too should we recognize the rights of the great apes? Yes.
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I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
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I don't like talking unnecessarily, and my communication skills are zilch. I just can't converse with people. Maybe it's because of my stuttering or stammering, but I'm not confident of talking with people. I only talk to very close friends and family.
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I don't have the freaking energy to write a memo. I'm out there saving lives.
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Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm.
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My choices in films are spontaneous.
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To play three games in seven days is not simple, above all for our wings-backs.
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While the steeples are loud in their joy, To the tune of the bells' ring-a-ding, Let us chime in a peal, one and all, For we all should be able to sing Hullah baloo.
