Thomas Hood Quotes
There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.
Quotes to Explore
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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Soap opera seems to be a dirty word, but actually they are the most popular shows we have.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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Time has changed and now is the age of spending.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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I don't see why OPEC countries should continue to cut production just to keep the price of oil high. This will not affect the industrial countries alone, it will also hit poor countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America. Who will look after them?
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Me mum used to always have the radio on – even now she has it on in every room. Me girlfriend sort of blames that reason for me not doing that well at school – constant noise, really.
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The possibility that terrorist groups could obtain weapons of mass destruction should not be dismissed as a fiction. This is a horrific threat the international community should take seriously. As long as these weapons exist, so, too, does the risk of their use - by accident or design.
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Unsurprisingly, the poll-takers don't talk a lot in public about the ignorance of the electorate on political and public policy matters. And the politicians are not going to disclose the, let's say, limited body of knowledge in their constituencies. You don't get elected calling your voters airheads.
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Nashville is wicked. It's like a proper music community, but it's also quintessentially American. You bump into people there with cowboy hats that spit in jars and call you 'boy.' I just love that.
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I have no ill will about anything.
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With my human rights advocacy, that's always been through my writing. I've always tried to write articles and contribute to journals and a lot of online journals - about human rights, especially Palestinian human rights. I find the time to do things to do things I'm passionate about, because I find enjoyment in them. I just have to juggle.
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Almost all people have this potential for evil, which would be unleashed only under certain dangerous social circumstances.
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We've been performing with symphonies all of our career and it sounds so wonderful when they play 'My Girl' with the large string section, I want to turn around and look.
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I need to have better knife skills... for vegetables.
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Shah Rukh Khan is the love of my life. I love Aamir Khan also.
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It seems always to have been difficult to have been a New York Philharmonic conductor because of the nature of New York. We are in direct competition with the great orchestras in the world who come to play in our hall or in Carnegie, and we are constantly compared. I think that 's a good thing.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?
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Bathsheba loved Troy in the way that only self-reliant women love when they abandon their self-reliance. When a strong woman recklessly throws away her strength she is worse than a weak woman who has never any strength to throw away. One source of her inadequacy is the novelty of the occasion. She has never had practice in making the best of such a condition. Weakness is doubly weak by being new.
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There are three things which the public will always clamour for, sooner or later; namely: novelty, novelty, novelty.
