Thomas More Quotes
A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
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When people don't understand my work, I don't feel like explaining.
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Despite the disreputable company it keeps, bismuth is harmless. In fact, it's medicinal: Doctors prescribe it to soothe ulcers, and it's the 'bis' in hot-pink Pepto-Bismol. Overall, it seems like the most out-of-place element on the periodic table, a gentleman among scoundrels.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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Those who believe that health is a commodity, on par with cars or computers, fail to grasp the basic economic lesson that health is very vulnerable to exposure to the markets, not least due to the profound asymmetries in power between the providers and consumers.
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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve.
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All I can say is that I've always felt like a very old soul. When I was 3, I felt 60.
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When I was on stage with the Spice Girls, I thought people were there to see the other four and not me.
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Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
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From a pretty early age, my mother realized that I was a little bit more gifted and talented than my own age group. So, she moved me over to play with the boys' travel soccer team when I was about 11 years old.
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The Internet was supposed to allow anyone to set up a web page and share their knowledge with the world. But in practice, it's too difficult and takes too long, and almost no one does it.
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You can love me or hate me and disagree with me, but you sure as hell know where I stand.
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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
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The art world as a whole, and museums in particular, belong to what has aptly been called the 'consciousness industry.'
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We will now discuss in a little more detail the struggle for existence.
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So much of existence is so boring. To have little moments of stupidity is always welcome.
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Something I try to instill in others is to just be a good person. It's a decision you make a million times a day. But if you just keep trying, good stuff comes to you in an ordained way.
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I am not a socialite, though I seem to have got the reputation for being one. I have some very good friends who happen to be in so-called Society; but Society as such is a bore and holds no fascination for me.
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Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia.
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The whole impetus behind going solo was an artistic inspiration in the sense that, obviously, success is fantastic. But as one becomes successful and gets branded with a certain sound, if the brand starts to become more of the focus than the evolution of the art, then that's putting the cart before the horse.
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It's difficult when you travel around America to get local food; it used to be very easy. You went from town to town and were more in touch with things.
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Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult.
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Writing 'Men We Reaped' broke me in different ways at different spots in the drafting process. The first draft was hard because I was just getting it out. In some ways, that draft failed. I was really just telling the story, not making assessments - this happened, then this. Just putting those facts down on paper was really painful.
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A pretty face may be enough to catch a man, but it takes character and good nature to hold him.
