John Hume Quotes

Like everybody at that age, I read an awful lot of pulp fiction. But at the same time, I also read quite a bit of history and read that as much for pleasure as part of a curriculum.

John Hume

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AgeHistoryTimePleasureFiction

My standard comment is, 'If you don't want your kids to be like Bart Simpson, don't act like Homer Simpson.'

Matt Groening

YouWantActCommentKidsYour

I naturally, when I make beats, aim for a darker tone just because I've always preferred those types of feelings.

Metro Boomin

FeelingsJust BecauseAimAlways

No one should ever be hurt or killed for saying, writing or drawing anything.

Steve Breen

WritingSayingHurtDrawingAnything

My mother was a dramatic and egocentric person, and she died before my father, who died of Alzheimer's disease. But I'd often thought, God, we were so lucky that was the order in which they died because she would have felt put upon.

Sue Miller

FatherMotherGodThoughtPerson

'Free Fallin' is a very good song. Maybe it would be one of my favorites if it hadn't become this huge anthem. But I'm grateful that people like it.

Tom Petty

GoodGratefulPeopleSongFreeLike

Nothing becomes so offensive so quickly as grief. When fresh it finds someone to console it, but when it becomes chronic, it is ridiculed, and rightly.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

GriefSomeoneNothingFreshChronic

As 'Possession' progresses, it seems less and less like the usual satire about academia and more like something by Jorge Luis Borges.

Jay Parini

MoreSatireSomethingSeemsLike

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

Dick Cavett

TimeEyeSeeActNastyJust

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

Daymond John

BusinessGreatPeopleStartFacts

I am especially proud of taking on issues most central to the health of our American democracy.

Chellie Pingree

HealthI AmDemocracyProudAmerican

I'd love to think that I'm a super human being, but I'm not.

Colleen Hanabusa

LoveThinkHumanHuman BeingBeing

The practical core of democracy, defined functionally, is the peaceful exchange of power between different groups of powerful political players arranged in parties.

Noah Feldman

PowerDemocracyPoliticalPowerful

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