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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A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good.
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Basically hated everything made in the '80s, music television - it was really about the '90s for me. 'Encino Man' was a big hit. 'Robin Hood: Men in Tights.'
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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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We have peace with Israel. We're actually the last man standing. So there is going to be immense pressure and people asking, 'Why are we having this relationship when it's not benefiting anybody?' Obviously, my answer is you always benefit from peace.
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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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No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her won way is without enemies.
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.
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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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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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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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My body will never go back to what it was, and I wouldn't expect it to after three babies.
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I don't want to be disrespectful to people who are incredible at their craft, but the truth is, if I didn't get paid for it, I wouldn't act. The best-paying jobs are usually the worst films. You're a very small cog in a big machine.
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I am very amazed by the runners out there because I like jog to the garbage can outside sometimes, and I get tired.
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Belts distract the eye from a bloated tummy, a heavy-set upper body and all manner of sins. They can be a superb way to update your wardrobe without breaking the bank, and there's no reason to stop wearing them, ever!
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What unknown seas of feeling lie in man, and will from time to time break through!
