T Quotes
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“That's the other thing about working on movies, the commitment is years. That's one thing that's so frustrating about the process is that it goes on and on and on for years.”
“That's the other thing that you find most often with women. They're not really concerned about what's happened over the last four years. They really want to know what's going to happen in the next four years.”
“That's the other thing: Even if you're on medication, you still have to treat your body properly and take care of yourself. The idea that it [ADHD] goes away or you grow out of it isn't true.”
“That's the paradox of loss: How can something that's gone weigh us down so much?”
Source: Atria Book Club Bites: A Free Sampling of Ten Books Guaranteed to Feed Your Discussion
“That's the paradox. Since we can spend as long as we want, we worked so much faster than we used to. I think that when you don't have the pressure anymore, the ideas come faster.”
“That's the paradox: the only time most people feel alive is when they're suffering, when something overwhelms their ordinary, careful armour, and the naked child is flung out onto the world. That's why the things that are worst to undergo are best to remember. But when that child gets buried away under their adaptive and protective shells—he becomes one of the walking dead, a monster.”
Source: Letters of Ted Hughes
“That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic.”
“That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.”
Source: Edge
“That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.”
“That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.”
Source: The Price of Money: A Play in Four Acts
“That's the perennial appeal of magic - that we ourselves have power and we can shape our world. I sometimes think its very analogous to having a lot of money that people think - 'cause that's kind of like a super power.”
“That's the person I plan on being for a very long time: someone who stands up, someone who is an advocate for people, [even if it's for] something that some people think is only hair. I think it's more than just that. I want to be a spokesperson for self-love and for diversity.”
“That's the point of it, to have those connections, as painful as they are, as much worry as they might cause; they give back in strength and comfort and joy, believe it or not, and the more connections you make, the happier you are, the more point there is to getting up and getting through the day.”
“That's the point of music, to not be selfish and to help other people, I think.”
“That's the point, isn't it? We have to live on, no matter how hard it gets. We'll win in the end.”
Source: The Well of Ascension: Book Two of Mistborn
“That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science.”
“That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.”
Source: Hocus Pocus
“That's the position I place myself in always. I don't know. It says follow me. It pulls you right through, just by the nose.”
“That's the power behind a tool like Facebook Connect. It is making a Web without walls. Facebook allows you to go to other sites to comment, rate, etc., without having to set up a new profile for that site.”
“That's the power of great insights. Insights, not ideas. There's a difference. Ideas, valuable though they may be, are a dime a dozen in business. Insight is much rarer -- and therefore more precious. In the advertising business, a good idea can inspire a great commercial. But a good insight can fuel a thousand ideas, a thousand commercials.”
“That's the premise of the Saudi Arabians. He's holding the president's hand with one. In the other hand, he's got his hand in the pocket of American consumers”
“That's the privilege of being a grandparent - they can indulge the children while parents have to be the bad guy. Grandparents can also be subversive and naughty with them.”
“That's the problem in my industry. Anyone can go and open a f - ing hotel. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. It's not like a doctor or a lawyer, you need certain qualifications. That's the issue.”
“That's the problem with being alive ... You've got to keep thinking of what to do.”
“That's the problem with belief: If you rely on it too heavily, you have a lot of picking up to do after you find out you were wrong.”
“That's the problem with drinking, I thought, as I poured myself a drink. If something bad happens you drink in an attempt to forget; if something good happens you drink in order to celebrate; and if nothing happens you drink to make something happen.”
“That's the problem with false proofs of true theorems; it's not easy to produce a counterexample.”
“That's the problem with folks nowadays. Nobody takes responsibility for their actions. Make a mistake and you pay for it. That's life.”
“That's the problem with having a bald head. It exaggerates the shape.”
“That's the problem with having a moral code. We want to destroy the jerkish part of the jerks, but we want to save the human being underneath.”
Source: Invisibility
“That's the problem with living in New York. You've got no New York to run away to.”
“That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.”
“That's the problem with relationships, It's a contract. You agree to be some unchanging caricature of yourself. To act the same way all the time. Never to change. It's counter-evolutionary. How can anything new and good come into your life, if you're holding on to something that doesn't exist anymore?”
Source: Luminarium
“That's the problem with the American position; they think that they are the police of the world.”
“That's the problem with the financial sector. Banks and the financial sector live in the short run, not the long run. In principle the government is supposed to make regulations that help the economy over time. But once it's taken over by the financial sector, the government lives in the short run too.”
“That's the problem with the Internet: You do a naked scene and then it's taken out of context and put on websites that have nothing to do with film.”
“That's the problem with the socialist model, because the socialist model - if you work twice as hard as I do, and you get just the same amount, pretty soon you decide that it's foolish for you to do more than I.”
“That's the problem with the truth," Darcy said. "Liars and honest men both claim to have it.”
Source: The Wool Trilogy: Wool, Shift, Dust
“That's the problem with them fables, they're putting animals together that wouldn't meet. I don't know where a scorpion is knockin' around with a frog.”
“That's the problem with truth. The truth is relentless. It won't leave you alone. It keeps creeping up on you from every side, showing you what's really so. That can he annoying.”
Source: Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue
“That's the problem with white horses. You have to pay for them yourself or you'll always be using someone else's reins.”
Source: Covet: A Novel of the Fallen Angels
“That's the problem with winning right from the start, thought Ender. you lose friends.”
Source: The Ender Quintet
“That's the problem, we do get used to things.”
“That's the problem. Anyone can go and buy a restaurant. I want to be at that f - ing dinner party where they say, "Hey, Bill, your food's great. You should buy yourself a restaurant." That's not right. Taking it less personally.”
“That's the process of making the film and it isn't until the world puts their eyes to it that you find out if it's creating any kind of connection at all. But every single film at some stage of the film I think, "I wonder what this is going to be?"”
“That's the public-school system all over. They may kick you out, but they never let you down.”
Source: decline and fall
“That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.”
Source: The Thorn Birds
“That's the purpose of stress. It's a friend. It's an alarm clock, built in to let you know that it's time to do The Work.”
“That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and unhappiness. It's singular.”
“That's the question, isn't it?" you said one night. "Does death bring freedom, or is it the end of freedom?”