Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.
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It takes half your life before you discover life is a do-it-yourself project.
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I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.
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When I was five I had violin lessons.
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Life is a sexually transmitted disease and the mortality rate is one hundred percent.
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And if I would have taken lessons I probably wouldn't have done it, and what forced me to do all this weird stuff on the guitar was I couldn't afford effects pedals, I didn't have all this stuff when I was a kid so I just tried to squeeze all the weird noises I could out of the guitar, which brings me to building guitars.
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Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.
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I'm not driven by being understood.
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The future is inherently full of discontinuities, and lessons of the past must be applied with enormous caution.
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One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
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Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.
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I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore.
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What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us.
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The first generations of Comanches in captivity never really understood the concept of wealth, of private property. The central truth of their lives was the past, the dimming memory of the wild, ecstatic freedom of the plains, of the days when Comanche warriors in black buffalo headdresses rode unchallenged from Kansas to northern Mexico, of a world without property or boundaries. What Quanah had that the rest of his tribe in the later years did not was that most American of human traits: boundless optimism.
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I forgot to shake hands and be friendly. It was an important lesson about leadership.
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You can't really compare people. That's one of the biggest lessons I've learned, because comparing yourself to someone else really stops you from being who you are.
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I'm learning from them! Everyone says that, but it's true. You learn more about yourself from them than from any other lesson.
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The foolish acts of others ought to serve more as a lesson to us than an occasion to laugh at those who commit them.
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Posthumous men-myself, for example-are not as well understood as timely ones, but we are listened to better. More precisely: we are never understood-hence our authority.
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Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.
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I really always felt that I was going to be an actress. I had a lot of confidence in the fact that I would do well from a very early age. I didn't know how tough the business is.
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You ever see 'The Dating Game'? That's a weird game show. The prize on that show: another contestant. Talk about cheap.
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I like the idea of bringing cartoon characters to life... and although the Americans have already attempted this, their culture is not sufficiently humane to make it work.
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Life is a series of lessons that have to be understood.
