T. E. Hulme Quotes
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People in this country haven't stopped hating fat people, but they've become more kind to me, since in our culture, even though we hate our fat people, we love our celebrities even more.
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I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
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Even though my mother had told me growing up that, 'If you win, nobody cares what color you are,' that wasn't necessarily true in the N.F.L.
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A man who writes for a living does not have to go anywhere in particular, and he could rarely afford to if he wanted.
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I would say issues around human rights - either you're going to take a hard stance, or you're not. You can't borrow money from China the way the U.S. has done and then turn around and say, 'But you've got a human-rights problem.' You can't be half pregnant.
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Being cool is when you win, you don't get too happy; and when you lose, you don't get too mad.
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Yearly data put the rest of the noise into perspective. Most of the weekly or monthly random up-and-down movements get smoothed out. Ultimately, this is where long-term investors should be focused.
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There are no tough guys in wrestling.
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Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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'My people have been wearing green glasses on their eyes for so long that most of them think this really is an Emerald City.'
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The Alliance for Progress is an alliance between one millionaire and many beggars.
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We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men and women are created equal.
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'Oh, but I've done some other unforgivable, unspeakable thing'? Google it. There's seven billion of us. Somebody has done exactly what you have done, and is currently on a book tour. You're never alone!
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Of course, nobody's tearing my door down. If you're successful you're going to intimidate and scare off the people you'd like to spend time with. They're not going to approach you. And the ones who do are often there because you are a celebrity.
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My dad was 32 in college, and my brother wore 32 in college. So I'm just going to stick with it.
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I can believe in myself, and I feel like I'm such a strong and talented designer.
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When I achieved the European record for reciting pi in 2004, this captured the imagination of Professor Simon Baron-Cohen in Cambridge, and he finally diagnosed me with Asperger's that year.
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Laboring men can perform for themselves the office of becoming their own employers.
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I put it forth as a challenge to the industry to continue thinking of actors, regardless of sexuality, with open eyes and open hearts that they can play any role.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I find the world just too complex to embrace a single ideological point of view.
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When you work fast, what you put in your pictures is what your brought with yoiu - your own ideas and concepts. When you spend more time on a project, you learn to understand your subjects. There comes a time when it is not you who is taking the pictures. Something special happens between the photographer and the people he is photographing. He realizes that they are giving the pictures to him.
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The caste system may be more highly developed in countries like India or England, but every tier of society in almost every culture tries to dominate a group it perceives as beneath it.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
