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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Writing is like carrying a fetus.
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There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.
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We are moving rapidly from an era of an oligopoly of content providers to an oligopoly of content controllers: new choke points. This is not media consolidation in the traditional sense, where a few huge conglomerates used economies of scale to dominate journalism by dominating the local and national agendas. This consolidation, to a very few companies plus increasing government intervention, is even more dangerous - and information providers of all kinds are finally starting to grasp what’s happening.
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I can be extremely vulnerable. People are tough on me because they think I can handle it.
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The Lebanese Civil War, 1975-1990, spanned four World Cups. It would have been a more symmetrical five had the Lebanese begun in 1974, but you know, we're Mediterranean, and timing isn't our forte.
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What I really don't like is oversimplification.
