Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I would love to be in 'Dancing With the Stars.'
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Most actors can't make any kind of living.
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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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While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in California are amazing, as they are always challenging, and I never get bored from all the beautiful scenery.
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A nation that in many ways was created-I'm sorry to have to say this, from way back-on racist principles, that's a fact, we have come a long way as a nation.
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims...
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Squeeze marriage as much as you like, you will never extract anything from it but fun for bachelors and boredom for husbands.
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I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.
