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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In the garment trades, on the other hand, the presence of a body of the disfranchised, of the weak and young, undoubtedly contributes to the economic weakness of these trades.
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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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I don't think people give Indian society enough credit. We may not like to talk much about things but we do, basically, want to live and let live.
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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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It's emotional warfare telling the people we love, the most, the truth about ourselves.
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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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I think, being an actor, it's just a relief every time you get a part.
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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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Name me a person in public life who doesn't have critics. Especially women in public life.
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We live by faith, and faith lives by exercise.
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It doesn't matter how rich or poor you are: when you're sick, you want the exact same thing.
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The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded.
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Everybody should espouse three or four harmless crank theories for the pure pleasure of having something harmless to be cranky about. And when a theory of this sort proves correct, it is a true moment for celebration.
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Old houses were scaffolding once and workmen whistling.
