Thomas More Quotes
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
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Golf is 90% mental. Once you know how to hold the club, swing it, it's all in the mind.
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I'm on a search for the truth.
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I can say with a level of confidence that Islam is not a religion of war, only because the majority of Muslims don't subscribe to that perspective, not because there's something inherent in the text that tells me it's a religion of peace.
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'Single' is usually applied to women as though they are a problem to be fixed.
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I cannot believe that violence depicted onscreen actually causes people to act out violently. That's oversimplifying the issue. If somebody commits a violent act after seeing violence in a movie, I think the question that needs to be asked is: would that person still have committed the act if he had not seen a violent film?
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I grew up wanting only to be an illustrator. I studied art at Laurel School in Cleveland and at Smith College.
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It wasn't until I was an adult reader that I began to fathom the influence of fairy tales on writers I was in love with over the years, from Louisa May Alcott to Bernard Malamud to John Cheever to Anne Frank to Joy Williams.
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Somebody might get criticized for doing some movie that totally sucks, then turn around and be incredible. Every actor goes through that, not just musicians who act.
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Controversies are part and parcel of making a big film.
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My personal take on politics is I deal with social situations and cultural situations in my music and in my life. I have said on record many times that I haven't voted. I'm not the type of person who says, 'I'm never going to vote.' I think it's clear to me that our system has failed us.
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School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century.
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I go the VA Hospital when I have a problem and the doctor jumps on me.
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If you like your brother and he's prospering, you'll be pleased for him.
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I don't make deals, I make pictures.
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A day on a film set is maddening.
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Beings who are so uniquely constituted must necessarily express themselves in other ways than ordinary men. It is impossible that with souls so differently modified, they should not carry over into the expression of their feelings and ideas the stamp of those modifications.
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Yeah I'm in love with the girl in the four-wheel driveChrome steel bumpers and red step sideShe has a large time in her large machineMan I wonder how she gets up in that thingIt casts a big shadow sittin' in the sunShe's got it revved up rockin' ready to runAnd someday soon I'm gonna climb right upAnd take a little ride in her big ol' truck.
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Before comparing yourself with others, win the battle with yourself. Strive to be better today than yesterday, and better tomorrow than today.
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If you lie down in a village square hoping to capture a sea gull, you could stay there your whole life without succeeding. But a hundred miles from shore it's different. Sea gulls have a highly developed instinct for self-preservation on land but at sea they're very cocky.
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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I've always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
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The way to heaven out of all places is of length and distance.
