Tom Hayden (Thomas Emmet Hayden) Quotes
Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
Quotes to Explore
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I do believe there are leaders who are like lightning and they come along and they lead. The Lincolns of the world, the Alexander the Greats, they do exist. They have existed.
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Boys are like puppies, but the thing I find terrifying is how do you steer them?
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Do not underestimate the determination of a quiet man.
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They've listed my name in the dictionary - 'Imeldific' is used to mean ostentatious extravagance... But the truth will prevail.
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Research shows that the climate of an organization influences an individual's contribution far more than the individual himself.
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In life, I'm pretty low-key and quite non-descript.
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There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries. I would not stay a week pent up in cities if it were not for my passion for art.
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It's very easy to lose language - it can be shut off in a second.
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Heroism feels and never reasons and therefore is always right.
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I was directed and commanded by another power. The power of darkness. The power that you've heard so much about. The power that a lot of people don't believe exists. The power of the Devil. Satan.
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If at first you don't succeed, you get back up and you try ... and you try ... and you try it again ... except ice skating, I hate this crap, I quit!
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I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.
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Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry.
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I don't have anything to hide but what happens is the media tend to beat up what I say.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success -- that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their creative life.
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I tried to do my best impression of The Jonas Brothers, but no matter how hard I tried I ended up looking cool!
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If we are perplexed by an apparent contradiction in Scripture, it is not allowable to say, 'The author of this book is mistaken'; but either the manuscript is faulty, or the translation is wrong, or you have not understood.
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Anyone who has raised more than one child knows full well that kids turn out the way they turn out - astonishingly, for the most part, and usually quite unlike their siblings, even their twins, raised under the same flawed rooftree. Little we have done or said, or left undone and unsaid, seems to have made much mark. It's hubris to suppose ourselves so influential; a casual remark on the playground is as likely to change their lives as any dedicated campaign of ours. They come with much of their own software already in place, waiting, and none of the keys we press will override it.
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The more time we spend with Mother nature, the more we fall in love with her.
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The only difference between the Republican and Democratic parties is the velocities with which their knees hit the floor when corporations knock on their door. That's the only difference.
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I think more so than the Republican Party, we reflect America on the Democratic side of the aisle, and that's a healthy thing. I mean, that's what democracy is all about.
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Twice the Republicans in the California legislature tried to block my seating because of my trips to Hanoi.
