T. E. Hulme Quotes
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I turn into a crying, hysterical maniac when I see a spider. It's pathetic.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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I am also a drummer of sorts. I've got an electronic set sitting in my bedroom.
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I was born in Jersey City and raised in Bayonne, New Jersey. It's a town that's next to Jersey City, and I'm still there!
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The big issue with rock stars becoming actors is that sometimes it's not believable, and vice versa with actors becoming rock stars. Sometimes just doesn't fit.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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One of my favorite episodes was the one in which Homer grew hair. That was a very unique episode, since there was a gay secretary, but that wasn't even the issue of the show-the issue was Homer's image changing because he had hair.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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Children should neither be seen or heard from - ever again.
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Real Madrid is the most important thing that happened to me, both as a footballer and as a person.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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I did do some Shakespeare on film, it's really difficult. It's really interesting, because I was doing a series in Canada called 'Slings and Arrows' and it was about a company based around the Stratford Festival.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The biological factors underlying race differences in sports have consequences for educational achievement, crime and sexual behavior.
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You need to get down among the people who are the dirtiest and dustiest, and the depravity, and you need to see Christ's light shining there.
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Science has revealed that the human body is made up of millions and millions of atoms... For example, I am made up of 5.8x10 27 atoms.
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Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
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When you keep the caliber of musicians very high in the band, people are going to come and go. Some of them will be people who have to try various things, it's natural.
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When I am not working, my family are the most important.
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"Hard" science fiction probes alternative possible futures by means of reasoned extrapolations in much the same way that good historical fiction reconstructs the probable past. Even far-out fantasy can present a significant test of human values exposed to a new environment. Deriving its most cogent ideas from the tension between permanence and change, science fiction combines the diversions of novelty with its pertinent kind of realism.
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Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
