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 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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Just know what's inside your food.
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The passage he was to read was from Revelations - or Obfuscations, as he preferred to call them. Reading it over on the train from Cambridge, he had felt a strange desire to build a time machine so that he could take the author a copy of Kant’s Critique of Pure Reason.
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I had an inspirational teacher at my junior school: Peter Nixon. He was enthusiastic, knowledgeable and slightly scary - a good combination for a teacher.
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In the past we believed both sexes were born with original sin. Today, we have come to unconsciously believe in the original sin of boys, but the original innocence of girls. – page 103.
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I'm not very interested in people. I recognize it in myself - there is a basic indifference toward people.
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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.
