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 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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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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I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.
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The state of our civilization manifests itself both in the non-problems that terrify us beyond all reason - rising sea levels - and in the real problems we pay no heed to [population decline]...In reality, much of the planet will be uninhabited long before it's uninhabitable
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I don't dislike rappers or hip-hop or people who like it. I went to the Def Jam tour in Manchester in the '80s when rap was inspirational. Public Enemy were awesome. But it's all about status and bling now, and it doesn't say anything to me.
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Courage is, on all hands, considered as an essential of high character.
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What goes down usually goes back up, if you're willing to be patient and don't hit the panic button.
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I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.
