Tom Conti (Thomas Antonio Conti) Quotes
When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
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Islam is antiauthoritarian, sex-positive monotheism.
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I love the road, and I love coming in contact with the fans. They talk to me and that's irreplaceable. But when I get tired, I head to the studio and I am in there for a long time.
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I like seeing girls throw down.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Once you're a Virginian, you're always a Virginian.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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I think of myself as a plain human being who happens to be an American.
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I have 10 children. I've got my eighth grandchild in the oven with Kimberly. I have all these wonderful kids.
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Art is more engaging that propaganda.
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It's the group sound that's important, even when you're playing a solo.
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How'm I doing?
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No man for any considerable period can wear one face to himself and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true.
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I wanted to be the first female, young teenager producer, and it didn't happen. And when it finally did happen, I was shelved because I was signed to Warner Bros.
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As long as you say I'm the guy who's real about it, I have no problem being the person who people look to to talk about race.
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Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
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'You are welcome, most noble Sorceress, to the land of the Munchkins. We are so grateful to you for having killed the Wicked Witch of the East, and for setting our people free from bondage.'
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A precise language awaits a completed metaphysics.
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We are never happy until we learn to laugh at ourselves.
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Religion, as it is understood in the West, does not lead toward progress, and science does not lead toward humanism.
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When you don't have someone to model yourself after, you're going to make mistakes.
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When we talk about compassion we talk in terms of being kind. But compassion is not so much being kind; it is being creative [enough] to wake a person up.
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There's never been a 'girl wonder' mythology.
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When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.
