Thomas Rhett (Thomas Rhett Akins Jr.) Quotes
I try not to put myself in a box, so I'll write with anybody who wants to. I don't put limitations on my co-writes.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.
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I think as a rifle platoon and company commander your view is about 1,000 meters in front of you and you hope you can cover that ground and not have to back up and give it up again.
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From Syria even to Rome I fight with wild beasts, by land and sea, by night and by day, being bound amidst ten leopards, even a company of soldiers, who only grow worse when they are kindly treated.
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Fiorello LaGuardia saved City Center. The real man saved it, and he made this building into a performing arts venue.
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Well it's hard to remember who, but I drunk dial a lot.
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I guess because of my act, people think that I say things they want to say, and that they can just come up and say anything to me.
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No woman has to be a victim of physical abuse. Women have to feel like they are not alone.
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The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
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Man is an imagining being.
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Great teams argue. Not in a mean-spirited or personal way, but they disagree when important decisions are made.
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The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.
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The Soviet Union represents a threat in terms of might. It is a joke in terms of its economy and what it has to offer the Third World - a laughingstock to countries that are looking for an economic-development model.
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Every woman feels she is too old and has missed the boat.
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In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.
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I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
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The supreme empire is that of the Emperor who renounces all normal life, that of other men, and in who the care of supremacy doesn't weigh like a load of jewels.
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A sensible human once said, 'If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit'; and again, 'She's the sort of woman who lives for others-you can always tell the others by their hunted expression.'
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The only person I do worry about, that I want to be a good person for, I think is my responsibility, is my sister. I'm going to be cool for you, okay. I like, I need to, I like being by myself right now. I think it's good for me.
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In one's relationship with dogs and with a newsroom, a generous amount of praise and encouragement goes much better than criticism.
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I have learned so much more about Islam in conversation with Jews and Christians and Hindus. I feel like that is part of the beauty of life on Earth - that we discover and develop what it means to be Muslim or Christian or Jewish not in isolation from others, but precisely in relationship with others.
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Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires.
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Acting kind of chose me.
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I try not to put myself in a box, so I'll write with anybody who wants to. I don't put limitations on my co-writes.
