Thomas J. Sargent Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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All my friends were non-Muslims. I actually knew very little about Islam - like, very little.
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I was convinced in middle school that I invented tight-rolling your pants, because I would get hand-me-downs from my brothers, and of course they were bell-bottoms from the '70s. So I would fold and fold over the bells. I like to think I started the trend. But I didn't.
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For every person that doesn't like you, there's gonna be somebody who does.
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I like to get to bed with a clear head.
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I did successfully kick tobacco at the age of 34. I smoked for like 20 years, from 14 to 34.
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But I can't say that I didn't like John Hammond's performances often better than the originals.
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I must be like the princess who felt the pea through seven mattresses; each book is a pea.
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At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.
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I don't like parties past 2 am. Then it's all losers and weirdos.
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Without sounding too pretentious, I feel my job is almost like becoming a monk or a nun - it's a calling.
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I like happy endings.
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I'd really like to work with Gwen Stefani and Cee Lo.
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I'm still in the Dixie Chicks; we haven't broken up... I love the Dixie Chicks; it's the most fun I've ever had in my life. It was like winning the lottery.
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Whipping and abuse are like laudanum: you have to double the dose as the sensibilities decline.
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I like children - fried.
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I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.
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Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.
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The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.
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Health care is a design problem. Dependence on foreign oil is a design problem. To some extent, poverty is a design problem. We need design thinkers to solve those problems, and most people who are in positions of political power are not design thinkers, to put it mildly.
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Nobody black or white who really believes in democracy can stand aside now; everybody's got to stand up and be counted.
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I have known many people who were seduced as children by same-sex partners and then spent their teen years being gay, and then found their way back to heterosexuality as adults.
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In L.A. summer's blistering heat, I've seen many girls wearing short skirts with Ugg boots. I like the boots, and the short skirts, but I've always wondered, don't their feet get hot?
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What I really don't like is oversimplification.