Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
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It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Cinema gives you the opportunity to be both a grandparent and a grandchild whereas in life you cannot be both at the same time.
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To get an Army that's already fighting a war to change in stride to a total different military strategy on the ground - and to get everybody on the same page - was accomplished by the sheer force of Dave Petraeus' will.
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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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Ultimately, I hypothesize that technology will one day be able to recreate a realistic representation of us as a result of the plethora of content we're creating converging with other advances in machine learning, robotics and large-scale data mining.
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It all begins with the initial tone coming from the cabinet, but EQ at the board is very important.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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My main incentive now is to be so successful that I can get a private jet and sit with the pilot. I got upgraded to first class the other week, but even there I was still scared. I could be massaged for the whole flight and still think I'm going to die.
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You have to open up on stage.
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The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.
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People think I am funny all the time. But I am not. I am serious, too. Also, I enjoy serious, dramatic films.
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I don't want to give any advice to a 19-year-old, because I want a 19-year-old to make mistakes and learn from them. Make mistakes, make mistakes, make mistakes. Just make sure they're your mistakes.
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There is nothing worse than a politician that gets defensive and starts attacking the media - and it always looks bad for the politician, because you sign up for this. You live by the sword, you die by the sword.
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I was lucky enough to be fairly quick at understanding what was taught, but unlucky enough not to be really interested in it, so I always got my exams but never had the scholar's love of learning for its own sake.
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You feel yourself working to show something. I've learned to distrust that feeling.
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I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of your year, which can change who you are.
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The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.
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I don't think I ever really got interested in theater.
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Kicked in the ribs, the press says 'art' when 'ouch' would be more appropriate.
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To iterate is human, to recurse divine.
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People tend to dwell more on negative things than on good things. So the mind then becomes obsessed with negative things, with judgments, guilt and anxiety produced by thoughts about the future and so on.
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I just try to make the best film possible, and once the movie's done, we deal with the DVD.
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The surest way to get a thing in this life is to be prepared for doing without it, to the exclusion even of hope.
