Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
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I met wonderful people playing in the NBA. Whether it is the officials, the scorekeepers, all the people who work for the NBA, not just for the Lakers, but I'm talking about just for the league itself.
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I love talking about myself.
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I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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I try cars; I try them all. Cars need to be sexy, because we're not talking about biscuits here.
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I'd done 'Peter Pan' in a little pre-K class or whatever.
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There is something joyous about not talking.
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There is a feeling, when you listen to radio, that it's one person, and they're talking to you, and you really feel their presence as one person.
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When I was a little boy, they called me a liar, but now that I am grown up, they call me a writer.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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There is too little courtship in the world.
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The Simpsons take up so little time that I'm able to do other things as well.
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I look at what I've gone through in my career and I really shouldn't be talking to you now. I should be dead ten times over.
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I learned how to shoot when I was pretty little.
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Dad really had little to do with the songs, except to perform them.
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It matters little how much equipment we use; it matters much that we be masters of all we do use.
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When you're on a series that's been cancelled, there's a little bit of a stink on you.
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I suffer a little bit from Napoleonism, if you will.
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It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.
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I want to spend more time with my family, but I'm not sure they want to spend more time with me.
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Somehow I am really relaxed within the chaos of having a baby - and anyone who's a mother knows it's very hard to relax, because there is so much to do and worry about!
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When I was a boy, I choked on a piece of candy outside the kitchen window for a few minutes while watching my parents making dinner. I thought I was going to die, but I didn't want to scare them. Our existence was so separate, a dying and a doing well, an outside and an inside. Trey Moody's poems hover in that cold, wet, refrigerator-lit place between the dying and the doing well, the outside and the inside. His poems are the thoughts of the person you love who is always standing behind you, slowly and silently suffocating. But they're not afraid to say hello, and please, and I'm scared.
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My first book took five years to write and I made $1,000 on it. The second took three years and I made $3,000. All this time I was a housewife being supported by a husband. I was very lucky.
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Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.
