Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
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Humour allows people to exhale a little.
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I try and be a little bit chic. I wouldn't wear sweatpants. I wouldn't wear a twinset.
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Only in America can someone start with nothing and achieve the American Dream. That's the greatness of this country.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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Monuments and archaeological pieces serve as testimonies of man's greatness and establish a dialogue between civilizations showing the extent to which human beings are linked.
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The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
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Run away from greatness and greatness will follow you.
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Even at 10 or 12, I was a hot, fast little cheerleader.
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It's not just the small-potatoes post-9/11 Homeland spending that feels a little off mission. It's the big-ticket stuff too.
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Greatness starts with the replacement of hatred with polite disdain.
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Americans live with the certain knowledge that the source of their greatness has not yet been released.
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We are now committed to an unqualified art, not illustrating outworn myths or contemporary alibis. One must accept total responsibility for what he executes. And the measure of his greatness will be in the depth of his insight and his courage in realizing his own vision.
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There aren't many people in the world that are as respected and loved when it comes to entertainment and as big as Pac. But the greatness that I adore the most is him as a man.
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I always say fitness is the first step to greatness. And I try to encourage my fans to be on the same page as that. Because fitness is the first step to setting a habit that you necessarily don't want to do but are still committed to doing every single day. And so I think that's why I always, always try to get a workout in.
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Once the Republicans get rolling, they assume they're going to win everything. They are zealots, and zealots assume the last five percent of whatever their plan is will be taken care of by their own greatness or momentum or divinity.
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Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune.
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A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.
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'‘Not everything that walks is a man,’' said the boulder conversationally, '‘and not everything that lies quiet is a stone,’ as the wolf remarked when the serpent bit him.'
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In a weird way, 'Veronica Mars' was my reaction to 'Freaks and Geeks' because 'Freaks and Geeks' was the show I wanted to write, the one I wanted to create, where there was no gimmick; you didn't have to have a teenage private eye. It was just these beautiful small stories about real kids.
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A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
