Thomas J. Sargent Quotes
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I don't really like to explain my songs.
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It is what we do easily and what we like to do that we do well.
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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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I'm not a girly girl. I go to the bar. I like to get dirty. I love sports. I'm like the son my dad never had.
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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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I wanted to work with Bryan Singer because I like his films.
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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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It's hard to say how certain stories just punch us in the heart and the brain at the same time at the end. I suppose that's what we're all looking for. But each story has its own valence, its own way of saying goodbye to you.
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Philanthropists can learn important lessons from business entrepreneurs. They both spend their time solving problems. And to be successful, they both must overcome physical challenges and create self-sustaining operations. And ultimately, they must allow people to take action for their own benefit.
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In an ideal world, you could reunite the Pakistan-occupied part of Kashmir with the Indian-occupied part and restore the old borders. You could have both India and Pakistan agreeing to guarantee those borders, demilitarise the area, and to invest in it economically. In a sane world that would happen, but we don't live in a sane world.
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What I really don't like is oversimplification.
