Richard Thompson Quotes
I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.
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Yanukovych has changed everything in Ukrainian jails - real criminals have been released, while representatives of the middle class and politically rebellious free-minded people have filled the prisons.
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As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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I started playing in bars when I was about 15 years old, and there are things that I saw early on that really shaped who I am.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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If I had my way, the woman I marry, she wouldn't be a part of Twitter and she wouldn't be on Facebook.
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Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
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An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
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It's hard to kill that father-son bond.
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The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require long and painful adjustment.
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I'm just trying to say that it should reassure us that the inevitable traumas of being human do end up producing some good. Otherwise, the human condition is overwhelmingly depressing.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
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We just compare our lifestyle to movies so you can relate to them. When I say, 'I bought a carpet from Aladdin so I could finesse and do magic,' that means I had to get me a new whip or I had to get me something in disguise to work my magic, to finesse, to get out of here.
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Many women do not recognize themselves as discriminated against; no better proof could be found of the totality of their conditioning.
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I have jeggings to wear and worlds to conquer.
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There's something so accessible about heroes who have faults.
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Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.
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The reason it was so scary was that there was only one climber capable of rescuing us, and that was Layton Kor, and he was in Colorado.
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Mother's love is unusual and complicated, unresolved to reason.
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When you go through a significant injury and have a major career change, you truly do go one year at a time, and you don't look past what's going on now, because you are not sure what's going to happen. Tomorrow is not promised.
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I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.
