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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When Calista Flockhart read for 'Ally McBeal', I saw this perfect chemistry between the words on the page and the person who would embody that character.
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What can we do to create shared prosperity? The answer is not to try to slow down technology. Instead of racing against the machine, we need to learn to race with the machine.
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When you wake up in the morning, Pooh," said Piglet at last, "what's the first thing you say to yourself?" "What's for breakfast?" said Pooh. "What do you say, Piglet?" "I say, I wonder what's going to happen exciting today?" said Piglet. Pooh nodded thoughtfully. "It's the same thing," he said.
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I get that you're scared and that you've been hurt. But doing what is easy and safe is no way to live, and a life without passion and love is so far beneath what you deserve.
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We make no apologies for setting high standards.
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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.
