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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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I guess my idea of a good audience is one that's quiet and listens, but also that's alive: they respond, they're getting the jokes, they're with me. And that' s been happening.
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I love radio, but it's a very limited thing today. Everything has to be edited down to 3:59, and too bad if I didn't make my statement in three minutes and 59 seconds. Everybody's song has to make its point so quickly.
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When a person is born, he can embark on only one of three roads of life: if you go right, the wolves will eat you; if you go left, you’ll eat the wolves; if you go straight, you’ll eat yourself.
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The greatest treasures of your life are associated with the people you love and who love you in return.
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You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script.
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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.
