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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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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There are two very different types of artists: those I call Old Masters, who work by trial and error and tend to improve with age, and conceptual people, or Young Geniuses, who generally do their best work early in their careers.
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Any solution for the Iraqi problem cannot be reached without Arabs and Arab participation.
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Ethnic diversity adds richness to a society.
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One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.
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I feel vulnerable every day to the grace of God as expressed in every living thing. I feel vulnerable to the astonishing beauty of being alive and to Mother Nature. I feel positive when I feel vulnerable, because it's another reminder that it's not all about me and about my ego. And I actually think it's courageous to be vulnerable, and it's not something to be avoided.
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'Genius' which means transcendent capacity of taking trouble, first of all.
