Thing Quotes
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When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge.
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Experience is a wonderful thing. It enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again. If all economists were laid end to end they would not reach a conclusion.
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However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large.
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The important thing for Government is not to do things which individuals are doing already, and to do them a little better or a little worse; but to do those things which at present are not done at all.
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We never did it ourselves. I'd think about it but I wouldn't do it. But it's the simplest thing to save somebody's life.
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It's a tough thing-you get in a situation where you feel you have to be perfect all the time and it sucks.
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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.
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The thing that's really kept me on my toes is how my mom would always tell me - it's not the best thing for a mother to tell you - but she'd never tell me after I'd lose a soccer game, 'You'll do better next time.' She'd always say, 'There's always somebody better.'
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The gravity is the first thing which you don't think.
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Love is a wonderful, terrible thing.
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If I were to say, 'God, why me?' about the bad things, then I should have said, 'God, why me?' about the good things that happened in my life.
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The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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I used to be a thing; I'm a person now.
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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.
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That culture, of looking at catchy music as a negative thing, is weird. It has nothing to do with me, or the music I was into growing up. The Stones and the Beatles only tried to write hits. Every Motown song, every Credence Clearwater song - they were trying to write hits.
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A sentimentalist—is a man who sees an absurd value in everything, and doesn't know the market price of any single thing.
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The only thing that scares me is dying.
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To me, the coolest, shiniest, sexiest, darkest, scariest thing you can be is pop.
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God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time.
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The dumbest thing is when fans get so nervous that they treat you like shit. I'm so fascinated by it. I'll be like, "Did ya enjoy the show?" and they'll be like, "Eh." They figure everyone is adoring you, so they'll take the opposite approach. At the very end, they're bummed that they acted the way they did, and it breaks my heart.
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This thing is but a puny imitation of a much grander system whose laws you know, and I am not able to convince you that this mere toy is without a designer or maker; yet you profess to believe that the great original from which the design is taken has come into being without either designer or maker! Now tell me by what sort of reasoning do you reach such an incongruous conclusion?
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I think one of the successes of Gladiator is how we manage to turn on a dime the character from one thing to another where you believe he is one thing and he is something very different.
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When they say that I am too old to make a thing, I try to make it immediately.
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Out of some little thing, too free a tongue can make an outrageous wrangle.
