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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There are some things that money can't buy: peace of mind, for starters, and lean muscle mass. Neither the Queen of England nor the founder of Microsoft can put in an order for either one.
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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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One of my big fears is people saying my songs are all starting to sound the same.
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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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What I am teaching is religiousness, a quality. Religion is a dead dogma, fixed principles, frozen fossils. What I am teaching to you is a living, flowing religiousness - an experience like love.
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The buffalo is all gone, and an Indian can't catch enough jack rabbits to subsist himself and his family, and then, there aren't enough jack rabbits to catch. What are they to do?
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It's just a great joy to get back together on a stage 30 years later and be able to do it.
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Death is the hardest question, and in an age that gives short shrift to the transmission of wisdom from old to young, it is not surprising that death is the single most obvious fact of life from which we constantly insulate our kids. We have, to our detriment, created a cult of denial about our own mortality. Life needs to be lived and prioritized with the understanding that it is limited.
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Who owns the whole rainy, stony earth? Death.Who owns all of space? Death.
