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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Let me know when you begin the new tea, and the new white wine. My present elegancies have not yet made me indifferent to such matters. I am still a cat if I see a mouse.
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One gets into a strange psychological, almost hypnotic, state of mind while on the firing line which probably prevents the mind's eye from observing and noticing things in a normal way.
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As thrilling as it was, speechwriting is ultimately frustrating for someone who wants to be a writer.
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I don't have sociopathic tendencies!
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Even back in elementary school, I was a leader, but a leader who didn't know how to channel my leadership skills in a constructive way. When I was younger, it probably came out as being more of a bossy little kid.
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I have a little bit of that gamer spirit in me. I just don't have the time to be a gamer. But in another life, I would be one.
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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.
