Thomas Carlyle Quotes
True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
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I wrote five issues of that and got the sack. Actually, they paid me for eight, but they changed their minds about the direction and threw three issues out the window.
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I love TV.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I know how to make a record that commercial radio or Triple J will smash now... It's kind of hard to stay true and write what you would write if you didn't have that in your head. Because I know I can get way more airplay and get this much bigger... and that's what I'm trying to avoid doing. Trying to avoid the poisons of success.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I love all women. Women are sublime beings. I love all of it: their eyes, their noses, their bodies.
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I love writing. Given a choice, after directing for all these years, and if given an army of talented directors, I would not direct at all.
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Love is the funeral of hearts.
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
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Majesty and love do not consort well together, nor do they dwell in the same place.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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The fashion world is so interesting because it's always changing, but if you know yourself really well, despite of all the changes in the fashion trends, you know how to stay true to yourself.
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Men we shall have only as we make manhood the object of the work of the schools - intelligence, broad sympathy, knowledge of the world that was and is, and of the relation of men to it - this is the curriculum of that Higher Education which must underlie true life.
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Love is the beauty of the soul.
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I love the idea of making a movie for kids but it's got to be that, with my take on it.
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I love the sound of Elmore James, the sound early guitarists like him got just by using minimal means.
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The way I write is generally about love. I have a great fascination about the subject.
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I have this dog named Marley, and it is a kind of love I had never known. I have a hard time believing Marley did not come from my body. I know that sounds insane, but I feel that connected to her. She made me realize I wanted to adopt children.
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If you have two good off spinners, what is the problem in playing both of them.
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I think the single biggest thing that money gave me-and obviously I came from a place where I was a single mother and it really was hand to mouth at one point. It was literally as poor as you can get in Britain without being homeless at one point. If you've ever been there you will never, ever take for granted that you don't need to worry. Never.
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I was in prison with pretty much the who's who of the jihadist and Islamist scene of Egypt at the time, and Egypt was the cradle of Islamism for the world - it's where it began and where jihadism began as well.
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Usually, the music inspires the lyrics. The lyrics just sort of fall off like a bunch of crumbs from the melody. That's all I want them to be - crumbs. I don't want to work any kind of fabricated message.
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True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.
