Jane Welsh Carlyle Quotes
It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!

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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I never figured I'd go into the Hall of Fame. A kid from the Hill.
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The main reason I backed DeepMind was strategic: I see my role as bridging the AI research and AI safety communities.
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Eclecticism - every truth is so true that any truth must be false.
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Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
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You learn stuff from every character you play about the human condition that can be quite enlightening.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I've tried my hardest to bribe my chef, but my team have been clever and hired someone who not only is not bribeable but who chases me round the house and makes sure I eat what he's cooked, and he lays out my vitamin pills and supplements in front of me so I can't 'forget' to take them.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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Rock Hudson wasn't my type. He's a great guy and had a great sense of humor.
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I think that for some time now I have been living with an anxiety which has had no tangible cause. It has been like having a toothache, without the conscientious dentist having been able to find anything wrong with the tooth or with the person as a whole.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.
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Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.
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Mothers are not supposed to give guidance.
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With a young-adult series, you need to get a lot of books out on the market quickly. Teenagers aren't going to wait years and years for the next book.
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The extension of women's rights is the basic principle of all social progress.
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I've always experimented with my look. Growing up, I thought it was so weird that people dressed alike and all bought the same things.
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I would like to do a duet with Kelly Clarkson. I just think she's wonderful!
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Seek knowledge and teach it to people. Learn dignity and tranquillity, and be humble towards those from whom you learn knowledge and be humble towards those to whom you teach it, and do not be tyrannical scholar otherwise your knowledge cannot be established because of your tyranny.
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How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value.
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It is odd what notions men seem to have of the scantiness of a woman's resources. They do not find it anything out of nature that they should be able to exist by themselves; but a woman must always be borne about on somebody's shoulders, and dandled or chirped to, or it is supposed she will fall into the blackest melancholy!