Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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The connection I make with being young and growing up is, like, the feeling of not being crushed by the world. Having an idea, thinking you can do it.
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The man does not beat your head because you got a Cadillac or because you got a Ford; he beats you because you're black!
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When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
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If we want to make a statement about a man's nature on the basis of his physiognomy, we must take everything into account; it is in his distress that a man is tested, for then his nature is revealed.
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature.
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A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.
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You could take away the singing, and I am fine. But don't take away my gift of writing. It is the best way I can relate and express what I am feeling and what I am going through.
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What is it precisely, that feeling of 'returning' from a poem? Something is lighter, softer, larger - then it fades, but never completely.
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If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
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Man may be considered as having a twofold origin - natural, which is common and the same to all - patronymic, which belongs to the various families of which the whole human race is composed.
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The man who lets himself be bored is even more contemptible than the bore.
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What I consider a good part for a woman and what some other Hollywood people think are good women's parts are very different. I don't want to play the supportive girlfriend who has nine scenes and just loves that man, maybe cheats on him in one scene but will always be there, and I mean - give me a break.
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Is life worth living? This is a question for an embryo not for a man.
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I admire the linear and decisive way a certain kind of man thinks, to my curlicue boundless overthinking.
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Even though I left for a year, I grew here as a Jazz man. If I'm fortunate enough to go into the Hall of Fame, I will go as a Jazz man.
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Again, as a gay man I look at that and say there's a hopelessness that surrounds it, but as a human being I look at it and say 'Why? Where's this disparity coming from, and why can't we as a culture and society dig deeper to examine that?' We're terrified of facing ourselves.
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One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
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But now having seen him which is invisible I fear not what man can do unto me.
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She is my first, great love. She was a wonderful, rare woman - you do not know; as strong, and steadfast, and generous as the sun. She could be as swift as a white whiplash, and as kind and gentle as warm rain, and as steadfast as the irreducible earth beneath us.
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I don't think it's an exciting thing to move back in with your parents.
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I mean, I hate to gloat, but I'm extremely satisfied with my position in life and the way things have worked out for me.
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
