Tommy Hilfiger (Thomas Jacob Hilfiger) Quotes
I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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No characters in 'Stay Close,' including the leads, are black and white. I want them to be grey. I think that makes for a much more interesting reading experience, something that will stay with you a little bit longer.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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A fair observer only has to ask: If there is violence, who profits?
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There are several authors who are also lawyers - and not only the ones who write legal thrillers. There are other attorneys who write romantic fiction, and I know of at least one who writes young adult books.
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I have found men to be more kind than I expected, and less just.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?
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I don't think that the writer is regarded as a freak by Americans.
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I have not mutated myself in any way.
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Misery Loves Company. SPIN Magazine (March 1993).
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Self-respect will keep a man from being abject when he is in the power of enemies, and will enable him to feel that he may be in the right when the world is against him.
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I used to be a window cleaner. I got fired because I sometimes liked to drink the soapy water.
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It is harder to explain why free markets create wealth than it is to pander to workers who have been displaced by global competition.
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I usually shop at Charlotte Ruth and Bebe.
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If you start by promising what you don't even have yet, you'll lose your desire to work towards getting it.
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I wanted to be liked when I was younger, which I think a lot of us do; I'm not ashamed to say it. I was a product of my environment, a product of my culture.
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When governments run on petro dollars or petro revenue instead of taxes, then they kind of sever the link between taxation and representation, and if you're not being taxed, then you're not being represented.
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Asking for many extras that we have denied.
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And the idea of just wandering off to a cafe with a notebook and writing and seeing where that takes me for awhile is just bliss.
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Having your picture taken in the street and put in a magazine won't change your life.
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I had eight brothers and sisters. Every Christmas my younger brother Bobby would wake up extra early and open everybody's presents - everybody's - so by the time the rest of us got up, all the gifts were shredded, ribbons off, torn open and thrown aside.
