Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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No one out there is interested in who did what to whom in Westminster politics.
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Sometimes people say that coach is a winner, but everyone wants to win. You must know how to behave in victory and in defeat, to look after what is our sport, football.
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One is that President Clinton, in his first two years of his term, did not govern as he had campaigned.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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My wife never throws anything at me that I can't handle.
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My daughter and stepson are really broad-minded.
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My husband works in the music industry and he's always the first to know about great new bands, so I end up seeming really with it because I'll be listening to an up-and-coming band before everyone else hears about it.
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People still say to me, 'What, you still live in Mexico?' I don't have to go to the United States simply to find work, and I don't have to stop what I'm doing. I mean, which Hollywood film beats 'The Motorcycle Diaries?'
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That's what happens in a good horror movie: there are always metaphors of greater subjects like humanity and empathy and compassion. It's not about the action and scary moments: You really care about these characters because they're mirrors of our own reflections.
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How does one get bored of life?
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When I heard Elvis and his 'Sun Sessions,' I went mad for it. I was about thirteen.
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It's just really fulfilling to celebrate with a group of folks, a team, than it is personally.
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I definitely don't sit down every day and make a new song.
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I think every business is definitely different. There are certain businesses where execution is everything.
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A man in the house is worth two in the street.
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I just think a hustler's ambition is that I never stop. I start off hustling and said I'll never stop hustling. An ambitious hustler is the one to hustle the hustlers. When I grew up, my heroes were hustlers. Now I'm their hero.
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You are responsible for the energy that you create for yourself, and you're responsible for the energy that you bring to others.
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This cycle of make a record, tour has been going on for 20 years now. I don't even know why I do it sometimes. Do I need more money? Do I need more platinum and gold records? The only thing I can think of is ego.
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We have already seen evidence that, notwithstanding the addition of substantial resources, we are experiencing great stress in recruiting and not inconsequential retention problems.
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I'm not dying for everyone to hear everything we do. Forty minutes every two years is sensible.
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I know no man who feels deeper disgust than I do at the ambition, avarice, and profligacy of the priesthood, as well because every one of these vices is odious in itself, as because each of them separately and all of them together are utterly abhorrent in men making profession of a life dedicated to God.
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It is much to be wished that one had a post that knew what it was doing again; and lawmakers that knew what they were doing. If I were the Government, I should feel rather ashamed of making regulations one month and unmaking them the next.
