Richard Thomas Quotes
I think that that is a wonderful format - you know, having individual stories over a period of weeks that are thematically connected in terms of genre - there's not enough of that out there.
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I think in the lifetime of a tennis player there are many times where you feel that tremendous confidence.
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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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Psychoanalysts believe that the only 'normal' people are those who cause no trouble either to themselves or anyone else.
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I really look up to Karlie Kloss.
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I plan to eliminate regulations that hinder domestic companies, particularly large conglomerates from investing in other companies.
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When you find yourselves a little gloomy, look around you and find somebody that is in a worse plight than yourself; go to him and find out what the trouble is, then try to remove it with the wisdom which the Lord bestows upon you; and the first thing you know, your gloom is gone, you feel light, the Spirit of the Lord is upon you, and everything seems illuminated.
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Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.
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Carefully observe oneself and one's situation, carefully observe others, and carefully observe one's environment. Consider fully, act decisively.
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But how to do feelings? All very well to write "She felt sad", or describe what a sad person might do, but what of sadness itself, how was that put across so it could be felt in all its lowering immediacy? Even harder was the threat, or the confusion of feeling contradictory things.
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I paint inspired by my father, a well known character of the nightlife; a clandestine gambling capitalist and owner of three brothels in Argentina. I develop my work in a time that, from my point of view, is much more romantic than the present day.
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And the poem, I think, is only your voice speaking.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of life.
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Desire and happiness cannot live together.
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Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us.
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Everyone has early fiction fantasies, but it wasn't until my second child Betsy was born that I allowed the urge to write a novel bubble up.
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The largest mistake would be to start to move away from petroleum, a proven and economic energy source, to more speculative and expensive sources...The world will eventually leave the age of oil, but there is no geologic reason for this to happen until near the end of the 21st century.
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We humans are more concerned with having than with being.
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All is connected ... no one thing can change by itself.
