Thomas More Quotes
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Usually it is uses of words, not words in themselves, that are properly called vague.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.
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A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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Progress might have been alright once, but it has gone on too long.
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Once in a while, I still witness occasionally sexist behavior and comments from men (which experience has taught me you should always deflect with humour rather than anger). Old habits die hard, after all, and it's unrealistic to expect dinosaurs to fall silent overnight.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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Kids are very cruel to each other.
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I'm savoring being in California every minute, learning that traffic is just God's way of saying 'Hi.'
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Why in almost all societies have married women specialized in bearing and rearing children and in certain agricultural activities, whereas married men have done most of the fighting and market work?
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If we don't change our culture, the politics is going to migrate more and more to statism.
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You give the money where you want it.
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I'm on Medicare now. If I go and have a big operation, it costs me nothing. It should cost me a little. I'm not rich, but I can afford a few grand if I have to have my appendix taken out. I can pitch in a little bit.
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I don't know what my Death Row meal would be. I'm surprised that people can even eat when they're on Death Row.
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Not taking risks one doesn't understand is often the best form of risk management.
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Power broken into a thousand pieces can be hidden and disowned. If no individual or institution possesses the authority to act without of everybody else in the room, then nobody is at fault if anything goes wrong.
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One ought to be against racism and sexism because they are wrong, not because one is black or one is female.
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A lot of people believe that when you are Buddhist, you are the Dalai Lama. I'm certainly not.
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One reason Cassavetes is a hero to me is that his movies grew with him; they reflected the stages of his life. He made movies about where he was at that time. That's what I want to do with my films.
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It is a wise mans part, rather to avoid sickness, than to wish for medicines.
