Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I realize now that I've hoped to be great - as an actress, as a mother - because I want to embody the greatness of women who didn't get to be all they could have been. Their dignity, their courage, and their brilliance make me strive to be better. They're a part of me.
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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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Anything that shifts power from the individual judgment of free citizens to government is a bad thing.
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There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and downright ignorance. The shape of the world today does not permit us the luxury of soft mindedness. A nation or a civilization that continues to produce soft minded men purchases its own spiritual death on an installment plan.
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In America the majority raises formidable barriers around the liberty of opinion; within these barriers an author may write what he pleases, but woe to him if he goes beyond them.
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Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.
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He who is really kind, can never be unhappy.
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All greatness is unconscious, or it is little and naught.
