Tom Allen Quotes
President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office
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I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.
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I don't know in the world why anyone would consent to be a king, and never to be left to himself, but to be worried and wearied and interfered with from dark to daybreak and from morning to the fall of night.
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The thoughtful soul to solitude retires.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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I never want to be anywhere else than in the rehearsal room. I mean, it's so lame to say, but it makes me supremely happy to work with people and to talk and invent and laugh.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I always try to start my weekend by running on the beach, which is great fun here in Barcelona.
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I am happy everywhere except in places where I see glitz and rich farts. I am happiest in Brooklyn, where the concentration of rich farts is minimal.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.
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In the original script, my character was a basketball player rather than a boxer. I didn't think I could pull that off. I'm a little short to be a basketball player!
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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You're always going to be more judgmental about your own performance than anyone else.
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Those whose character is mean and vicious will rouse others to animosity against them.
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I think Hollywood has seen what fandom can do for a project. You can definitely see that when you go to Comic-con.
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It's an honor for me to contribute to Houston's younger generations and show them that 'smart is cool.'
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I don't think writers really choose their subjects. I think the subjects, the topics, the themes, choose us, and then we make the most of what we have. For Trollope, society; for Roth, Jews. For me, apparently, love. Why hide it?
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It is not the money but the self-respect and wanting to create good music.
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What is interesting is the power and the impact of social media... So we must try to use social media in a good way.
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If I can give you any advice, I beg you to get closer to the Eucharist and to Jesus... We must pray to Jesus to give us that tenderness of the Eucharist.
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It's not enough to just mildly want what you want. You must wildly want what you want. Nobody ever got their greatest wishes by being wishy-washy. You need to put extreme energy into your power of intention to win what you wanna win.
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President Bush's mercury rule is a gift to the big energy companies that helped put him in office
