Richard Thompson Quotes
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Terrorism will spill over if you don't speak up.
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For a spinner growing up in England, it is challenging to become an off-spinner. The line and length needs to be altered on each of the four days of county cricket or five days of Test matches. The pitches in England don't have a set pattern. It changes with each day, and accordingly, the length varies.
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It's well worth making your own harissa, but there are some very good commercial varieties.
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The beautiful uncut hair of graves.
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I wasn't scouted in the mall as a kid; it just kinda happened naturally 'cause of Instagram and New York and being visible, which is cool. Things just started rolling in. Timing was in my favour 'cause the Internet acted as a catalyst for the fashion industry to change and be more open 'cause people demanded it.
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I've always just focused on the work, and I've just tried to be honest with the work. If the work speaks to people, fantastic.
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What I saw when I was a child was my father who was a pilot, and because of circumstances was thrown into the political system, and all I saw when was small after my grandmother died was my father in constant - constant combat with the system in India, and then I saw him die, actually.
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Don't let fear rule your life. Live one day at a time, and never be afraid.
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The times may have changed, but the people are still the same. We're still looking for love, and that will always be our struggle as human beings.
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Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was not pretty, she was not clever, she had no friends, no talents, nor even an imagination to make her think she was happy when she was really miserable. As she was never miserable, she had no need of an imagination.
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But he understood from hard-earned experience that true security comes through making peace with your neighbors.
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When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand.'
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of sudden a thought occurred to me: If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight. I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.
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To be honest, I don't care how it went in.
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We know the seductive alchemy of art. To transform private anguish into a narrative of truth, if not beauty; to make sense where there was none; to bring order out of chaos - these are the promises art makes.
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Any fool knows that bravado is always a cover-up for insecurity. That's the truth. And on that note, I'll say goodnight. God love you.
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Russia has never been very good at explaining itself to foreigners.
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What I'm doing is obeying the law of diffusion of innovations.
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As long as capital-both human and money-can move toward opportunity, trade will not balance.
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You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around.
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There are foods you should avoid. For me, sugar is a no. Because it gives me a spike and then a crash.
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All audiences should be slightly off balance.
