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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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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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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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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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 love for the crowd to feed off me, and I try to make my teammates feed off me.
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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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If tribulation is a necessary element in redemption, we must anticipate that it will never cease till God sees the world to be either redeemed or no further redeemable.
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Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
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I like to make colored xeroxes of things. I clip out pictures of Liza Minelli and her husband from magazines and I fax them to people anonymously.
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For man may pious texts repeat, And yet religion have no inward seat
