Thomas Hood Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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All that hullabaloo about somebody's net worth is just stupid, and it's made my life a lot more complex and difficult.
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The strange anthropological lesson of social media is that human beings, if given a choice, often prefer to socialize alone.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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I don't think of myself as a movie star and I can pretty easily convince other people that I'm not a movie star.
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I always wanted to play with Kobe Bryant. I used to tease him all the time. Every time I was a free agent, I was like, 'What's up, bro? You got a chance to get the pit that you need. You feel me? This is your chance.'
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You know that neither numbers nor strength give the victory, but that side which, with the assistance of the gods, attacks with the greatest resolution is generally irresistible.
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I think the concept of polo that people had in the 1920s and the 1930s was much more accurate, when going to a polo match was seen as a great day out and great fun on a more popular level.
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The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
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The single biggest resource India has is people and skill.
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I was born in Colorado and grew up in Pennsylvania with family in Texas and Oklahoma.
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We have created a new demonstration program to allow families with a sick child who could be helped with a cord blood transplant from a sibling to bank cord blood from newborns should they decide to have another child.
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If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.
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It [Christian Social Party] recognized the value of large-scale propaganda and was a virtuoso in influencing the psychological instincts of the broad masses of its adherents.
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I get really insecure because even though I can speak in musician's terms, I don't know as much as real musicians.
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Secular schools can never be tolerated because such a school has no religious instruction and a general moral instruction without a religious foundation is built on air; consequently, all character training and religion must be derived from faith . . . We need believing people.
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For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat
