Tom Hayden (Thomas Emmet Hayden) Quotes
Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
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I don't like to say anything good. I feel like I'll jinx myself.
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We always regret that we did not ask our parents more, really get to know them while they were alive.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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Jordan has to show the Arab world that there's another way of doing things. We're a monarchy, yes, but if we can show democracy that leads to a two-, three-, four-party system - left, right and center - in a couple of years' time, then the Muslim Brotherhood will no longer be something to contend with.
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The surveillance of ordinary people is far greater than I would have imagined and far greater than the American public has been able to debate.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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I am not the kind of leader who pontificates about what should be done - I don't operate on scenarios, and I am not a prophet.
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Some things are really sacred and important to other cultures, so you have to be aware, politically, about those things before you just adopt them.
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If one person is spending all of their income on clothes, travel, hobbies, and entertaining, and one person is saving it, that may not be quite fair if and when you guys split up, depending on what the law is and what you decided to do.
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I still have some of my old University essays, and I do still have my drawing book from primary year seven.
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I actually felt like I was starting a new career as a news reporter while playing in 'Pinocchio.'
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There's a good lesson for policymakers: It's not the presence of the U.S. that is a problem for many people in the Arab region; it's the type of presence we bring.
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I recognized that I needed to re-train my brain to stop eating like I wanted to punish myself or punish someone else. I needed to re-learn how to eat like I loved myself, and want to nourish and support myself.
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When you arrive at your destination, pay absolutely no attention to the thing people call jetlag.
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Most people have never learned that one of the main aims in life is to enjoy it.
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Alinsky's 1971 book, 'Rules for Radicals,' is a favorite of the Obamas. Michele Obama quoted it at the Democratic Convention. One Alinsky tactic is to 'Pick the target, freeze it, personalize it, and polarize it.' That's what the White House did in targeting Rush Limbaugh, Rick Santelli and Jim Cramer.
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When you're jumping, it's just an aggressiveness, but I think the exhilaration and the fun comes after you make the bar and you're falling. That's the best part - a few seconds to celebrate and relax.
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The saving grace of all really great gifts is that the persons who bear their burden remain superior to what they have done, at least as long as the source of creativity is alive.
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Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of the same addictive foods. This approach inevitably fails.
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If we want to live freely and privately in the interconnected world of the twenty-first century - and surely we do - perhaps above all we need a revival of the small-town civility of the nineteenth century. Manners, not devices: sometimes it's just better not to ask, and better not to look.
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To me, the lyrics of the song define the kind of style it is.
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Our crime was that we were beginning to live a new and contagious life-style without official authorization.
