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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I have learned from Jesus Christ Himself what charity is, and how we ought to practise it; for He says: "By this shall all men know that ye are My disciples, if ye love one another." Never can I, therefore, please myself in the hope that I may obtain the name of a servant of Christ if I possess not a true and unfeigned charity within me.
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Israel says, quite correctly, that changing Israel’s ethnicity would change the idea of Israel. Well, changing America’s ethnicity changes the idea of America, too. Show me in a straight line why we can’t do what Israel does. Is Israel special? For some of us, America is special, too.
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Send a bouquet of your face with the morning breeze.
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I wanted all my life to give my world into other arts - books, plays, movies - but I didn't want to sell out.
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Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.
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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.
