Ted Hughes Quotes
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
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As soon as one project is finished I like to go straight on to something else.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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The most fascinating person is always the one of the most winning manners; not the one of greatest physical beauty.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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The thing, when you're down two sets to love, is to stay calm, even though it's hard, because people are freaking out, people are worried for you.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I truly loved Jason Reitman. I was there on his first film, 'Thank You For Smoking,' and I'd go work with him to do anything.
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If I win the gold medal, I will be set for the rest of my life. The medal itself doesn't give you anything, but it makes you a marketable item. You take it and see what you can do.
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I knew that going on 'One Tree Hill' was going to be an incredible vehicle for the record. What is amazing about it is that my role on the show is, you know, basically playing a musician, and all the songs she plays are off my record.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.
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I think they are very important because westerns have a code and a symbolism.
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I was awfully curious to find out why I didn't go insane.
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There is a line that I always loved from Lucretius. He said, "The sublime is the art of exchanging easier for more difficult pleasures." The presumption of that formulation is that the more difficult pleasures are actually better than the easier pleasures. That is why one makes the exchange.
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To have so little, and it of so little value, was to be quaintly free.
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We need a space program because we need explorers. Its in our souls.
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The land of the living was not far removed from the domain of the ancestors. There was coming and going between them, especially at festivals and also when an old man died, because an old man was very close to the ancestors. A man's life from birth to death was a series of transition rites which brought him nearer and nearer to his ancestors.
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The real danger to the Earth lies in this excessive consumption.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
