Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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First of all, I'm not the kind of guy that likes to rehash the show and so forth and so on.
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It seems that this situation is not restricted to science but is more generally human.
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Presidents make their hard decisions and then abide forever with their mistakes and regrets.
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Overall I enjoy a certain anonymity. I live a very normal, very ordinary life.
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It is always interesting and sometimes even important to have intimate knowledge of a composer's life, but it is not essential in order to understand the composer's works.
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I have a whole area in my closet for displaying shoes. They are in rows. But nobody comes in my closet, so they are only on display for me. It's pretty spectacular.
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I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit of a soap opera, and it's a character study of this character, Walt Longmire, and the people around him.
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The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
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Sometimes in this game it's as good to be lucky as it is to be good.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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I have an aim - I have a clear aim in my mind, and the aim is that I do not like what I see in Indian politics; it is something that is inside my heart.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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Snake has been everything to me. Look at where I was when I started with the company in 1988 and where I'm at now. I mean, he's shown me just about everything on and off the race track.
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The sanctions will not kill us. It's apartheid that's killing us.
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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Picking and choosing what kind of love is worth recognizing is an expensive choice. Is discrimination worth that price?
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As we all know, there is inner beauty and outer beauty. If we examine inner beauty, to me there is nothing more beautiful than inner peace, in a man or a woman.
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Bacteria are single-celled organisms. Bacteria are the model organisms for everything that we know in higher organisms. There are 10 times more bacterial cells in you or on you than human cells.
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I've always been a very careful sailor. I know, me and being careful - doesn't really sound right, does it? But when I sail, I take it seriously and take along spares for everything. You have to be careful when you're 1,500 miles from land. There's no one you can call. You're on your own.
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Philanthropy without scale and sustainability is like any other bad business that will simply wither and die on the vine.
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I know not whether, in the eyes of the world, a brilliant death is not preferred to an obscure life of rectitude. Most men are remembered as they died, and not as they lived. We gaze with admiration upon the glories of the setting sun, yet scarcely bestow a passing glance upon its noonday splendor.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
