Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.
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Don't go getting mixed up in the business of your betters, or you'll land in trouble too big for you.
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Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.
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My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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A modern-day Dickens with a popular voice and a genius for storytelling in any genre, Stephen King has written many wonderful books.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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When I was a kid and got in trouble, I'd always say, Mom, I'm in trouble. Well, Mom, I'm in trouble.
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Sharks are in real trouble, and they need all the help they can get.
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There are plenty of clever young writers. But there is too much genius, not enough talent.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.
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Despite his dodgy politics, Yeats remains an inspiration for his genius and the simple fact that the older he got, the better he wrote.
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One of the cheapest commodities in the world is unfulfilled genius. All of us want to be known as a unique individual, the one who broke out of the pack. So, you offer yourself up as a sacrifice and what you’re afraid of is losing and being thrown back into the pack. One question taunts you. Do you want to have, or do you want to be?
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When I review my contract, it is to make sure that I am not going to get in trouble or not paid. Then afterward, people say, 'Did you make sure they gave you a green room,' and I'm like, 'No, I didn't get any of the cool stuff.'
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Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.
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Ambient music must be as ignorable as it is interesting.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
