Thomas Carlyle Quotes
So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.
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I've done quite a few things based on real events or real people, and I think that's always really interesting that you can read about them or, if you're lucky, you can meet them.
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Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'
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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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I think I tried to separate indoors and out. And so when he beat me indoors, I did not see that as letting anybody down, I saw it as a good head to head competition, and so it was. It was fine.
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I'm a Christian, and I'm not judgmental towards anyone. I think that's really important.
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You can't try and make something you think someone else will like. You can only make what you like. How can you make a song that Yo-Landi Visser likes? You don't know me. You'll never understand me.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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I do think you get lonelier and lonelier being an artist as you get older.
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The first album I ever owned was 'A Star is Born.'
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As a hockey player, playing for an Original Six team at Madison Square Garden, where it's packed every night, there's nothing like it.
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I think issues and substance, policy and vision and record should be the meat of politics.
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As a consumer, I don't create art, but I think whatever the message is, art has to touch you.
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I think a man is a man, and a man has a hairy chest, so let that be!
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I often say the last role I played that really touched me and where I was able to access what I really am was Bonnie, which is kind of sad when you think how early in my career that was.
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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Just about the entirety of the first album, 'Brown Sugar,' I wrote it, the majority of that record in my bedroom in Richmond. And all of the demos for it were done on a four-track in my bedroom. I think EMI was a little leery of me being in the studio producing it on my own, which is what I was fighting for.
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In spite of what some people claim, we are not in a post-racial era. I think it's still an important issue to bring up.
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I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever.
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I always think like I was born in the country where everybody ate apples. Then I ended up in the country where everybody eats bananas. So now, I eat bananas so long, I'm just remembering the apples.
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Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.
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The world bursts at the seams with people ready to tell you you're not good enough. On occasion, some may be correct. But do not do their work for them. Seek any job; ask anyone out; pursue any goal. Don't take it personally when they say 'no' — they may not be smart enough to say 'yes.'
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We should have an open mind about the kind of levers that we apply and not be afraid to think the unthinkable.
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So here hath been dawning Another blue day; Think, wilt thou let it Slip useless away? Out of eternity This new day is born, Into eternity At night will return.
