T. E. Hulme Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Everyone should be commended for allowing people to make disasters, to make failures - you've just got to be sure that it's a magnificent failure and that, by creating a magnificent failure, you plant the seed.
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My favorite writers are all Jews - David, Solomon, Matthew, Mark - well, you get the picture.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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Everybody has to agree that the best thing we can do to start reducing the deficit in this country is to put people back to work.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Freedom of expression is tested during times of anger and conflict and enables all opinions and outraged expressions of dissent that we may not want to hear. But even for this there have to be limits.
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What is Oracle? A bunch of people. And all of our products were just ideas in the heads of those people - ideas that people typed into a computer, tested, and that turned out to be the best idea for a database or for a programming language.
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What America does best is produce the ability to accept failure.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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If I tried to flirt with a woman and she didn't know who I was, she would run away.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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People say that knowledge is power. The more knowledge, the more power. Which makes you just about the most powerful person on earth. When it comes to killing people. And then getting away with it.
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My job is to come up with something that you like and you agree with that you would play wholeheartedly. If we disagree, I may not be doing my job correctly.
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When you go out of your comfort zone and it works there's nothing more satisfying.
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My respect for politicians has increased. It's hard work - even hard physical work.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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All emotions are the ore from which poetry may be sifted.
