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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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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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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I started out as a receptionist. I typed, I filed, I answered the phones for a little nine-person company.
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Many have had their greatness made for them by their enemies.
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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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That something so obvious as the vanity of the world should be so little recognized that people find it odd and surprising to be told that it is foolish to seek greatness; that is most remarkable.
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Every intellectual revolution which has ever stirred humanity into greatness has been a passionate protest against inert ideas. Then, alas, with pathetic ignorance of human psychology, it has proceeded by some educational scheme to bind humanity afresh with inert ideas of its own fashioning.
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The way to acquire lasting esteem is not by the fewness of a writer's faults, but the greatness of his beauties, and our noblest works are generally most replete with both.
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I really appreciate what the writers are doing and respect everything that they do. So, I was satisfied, for sure.
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I want to believe that those who have been appointed to accomplish this mission will be totally committed, devoting all their skills and determination to their work. I urge you to lend them your support so that, together, we can build that bright future worthy of our country.
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I have two daughters: One an open book, one a locked box. So the question of privacy is a challenging one. How much do kids need? How much should we give? How do we prepare them to live in a world where the very notion of privacy opens a generational chasm?
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
