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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Do not the brave know The greatness of their progeny? A country present will meet thee, And while it may possibly be yours, Three hundred thousand years save one, A short hour of the day of everlasting life.
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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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I've been around doing a little of this and a little of that.
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
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I was painfully shy when I was younger but at some point you've gotta grow up. I think the genius in the man-boy thing is you tap into a woman's motherly instincts.
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Everybody is bigger than me—it’s not like I’m going up there to intimidate you.
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Nothing liberates our greatness like the desire to help, the desire to serve.
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
