T. E. Hulme Quotes
All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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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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Any time you have an injury, it's going to be tough.
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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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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
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I won't lock my doors or bar them either if any of the old coots in the pictures out in the hall want to come out of their frames for a friendly chat.
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I'm mostly a keep-to-myself kind of guy, but you slowly find yourself getting folded into the musical tapestry.
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The Catholic novelist in the South will see many distorted images of Christ, but he will certainly feel that a distorted image of Christ is better than no image at all. I think he will feel a good deal more kinship with backwoods prophets and shouting fundamentalists than he will with those politer elements for whom the supernatural is an embarrassment and for whom religion has become a department of sociology or culture or personality development.
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The Social Contract is nothing more or less than a vast conspiracy of human beings to lie to and humbug themselves for the general Good. Lies are the mortar that bind the savage individual man into the social masonry.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
