Things Quotes
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A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of.
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Some of the greatest things, as I understand, they have come about by serendipity, the greatest discoveries.
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Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.
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Having been a lobbyist myself you can't overstate how easy it is to get things done your way. It's a complicated policy and many lobbyists are trying to wreck amendments as we speak.
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I'll start with small things.
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There have been a couple of things I've been involved in launching that have been a bit more public, but I've always had other things tipping away in the background.
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She raised the kids and took care of things while Dewey was gone. She had to be a wonderful woman to put up with her husband; he was gone constantly. She was independent and intelligent.
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"Be Prepared." "Be prepared for what?" "Why, for any old thing."
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The great thing about the show [ Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency] is that there is so much more to be revealed. There are questions about what each of these characters actually know, and nothing is what it seems.
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Things can only go uphill from here. They can't go any lower than that.
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I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
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Some things happened and some other things didn’t, and at one point I found I’d gone to a place where I married Jascha. Pyotr Frankis had been right: life was funny. It was also reasonably good and so was the relationship. And after the divorce, I got a job.
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things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.
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Often you will end up loving the new things you try and even if you don't love it, you've given yourself a new experience.
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I have always loved the gaps, the spaces between things, as much as the things. I love staring, pondering, mulling, puttering. I love the times when someone or something is late-there's that rich possibility of noticing more, in the meantimePoetry calls us to pause. There is so much we overlook, while the abundance around us continues to shimmer, on its own.
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There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things.
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As I see it, you are living with something that you keep hidden deep inside. Something heavy. I felt it from the first time I met you. You have a strong gaze, as if you have made up your mind about something. To tell you the truth, I myself carry such things around inside. Heavy things. That is how I can see it in you.
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We are the sum of who we are. We pick certain things at certain moments that influenced us.
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Yes, very often! But at the same time I realize that I can't live without rhythmic gymnastics. It's the most important thing in my life
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How well we communicate is determined not by how well we say things but how well we are understood.
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A memorial garden will be tacky. We should put the money into supporting things that Diana did and was interested in.
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If you were wise enough to know that this life would consist mostly of letting go of things you wanted, then why not get good at the letting go, rather than the trying to have?
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The funny thing is that I feel close to all my characters. Deep, deep inside them all. I can't describe how deeply I love them all.
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Talking about straws and camels' backs is just one way of approaching things. If you have enough camels, no backs need be broken.
