Thomas Hood Quotes
Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.
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There's guys like me who aren't going to the theater, so distributors are leaving money on the table.
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Especially in the day and age now with social media and cameraphones and things like that, you always have to act like you're being watched.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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If you get lazy when you're onstage, it shows.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.
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I've started lots of books, but it's hard for me to finish them.
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War of aggression, war which does not imply defense of one's country, is a collective crime.
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The idea of the elite as composed of men and women having a finer moral character is an ideology of the elite.
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Beauty? What's that?
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Our sense of free will results from a failure to appreciate this: We do not know what we intend to do until the intention itself arises. To understand this is to realize that we are not the authors of our thoughts and actions in the way that people generally suppose.
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Singing, for me, means singing as loud as I can.
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I've been telling my students, 'Imitate, imitate.' And they say, 'Well, what if I plagiarize, or what if I'm not original? I want to be myself.' And I always tell them, 'Your self will shine through'... If you allow yourself to feel deeply and honestly, what you say won't be like anyone else.
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I'm going to always bleed the red, white, and blue. I represented the U.S. in the Olympics; I love my country. But the U.S. fans will love you on Monday; if you lose, they'll hate you on Tuesday. If you win, it will be back to loving you on Wednesday.
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On a personal note, myself, I find religion - I can understand it, I can understand why we have it, as a kind of force on the planet. And I also at the same time think it's ludicrous.
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Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
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Some sigh for this and that; My wishes don't go far; The world may wag at will, So I have my cigar.
