Thomas Paine Quotes

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Thomas Paine

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: January 29, 1737 - June 8, 1809

Topics

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Writing nonfiction is more like sculpture, a matter of shaping the research into the finished thing. Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.

Joan Didion

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Well, a few years ago I think I could have given you a more enthusiastic answer about that but in the last few years, for the first time in my life, I really haven't listened to much music. I used to work with music on and now I don't.

Ann Beattie

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When I was a kid, we got up, we walked a number of paces to a television, turned it on, and changed channels.

Jeffrey Tambor

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I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Jean Paul Gaultier

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To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.

John R. Allen

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We need to execute fewer things better.

Steve Easterbrook

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I was in the Air Force and was a boom operator (in-flight refueling). I got my comedy start in the Air Force.

Sinbad

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I didn't want to deal in poetry. I got rid of that after a few months.

Tom Wesselmann

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That's the nature of women, not to love when we love them, and to love when we love them not.

Miguel de Cervantes

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Jesus said, 'Blessed are the peacemakers.' And I think a lot of people don't understand that there's a difference between a peace lover and a peacemaker. Everybody loves peace, but wearing jewelry around your neck and saying 'I love peace' doesn't bring it.

Mike Huckabee

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It's hard to have a career.

David Spade

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I started playing piano when I was around four; that's my first passion.

Condola Rashad

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