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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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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Great songwriting will never die - it's in the DNA of music - but what's new and exciting is pairing that with new sounds that technology is enabling us to make.
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If the world acts together, we can make sure that all of our children enjoy lives of opportunity and dignity.
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I just want to keep challenging myself. Keep moving the goalposts and raising my game.
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In order to increase his pleasures, man has intentionally added to the number and pressure of his needs, which in their original state were not much more difficult to satisfy than those of the brute. Hence luxury in all its forms; delicate food, the use of tobacco and opium, spirituous liquors, fine clothes, and the thousand and one things that he considers necessary to his existence.
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When you don't even get to try, you're like in a vacuum.
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I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.
