Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
I would love to be a role model.
Gabby Douglas -
Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
Flume -
A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
Man Ray -
I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
Laura Linney -
I've never been in a relationship before. I've only been in unrequited relationships where people haven't loved me back. I guess I'm a little bit attracted to that in a bad way.
Sam Smith
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. -
I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
Randy Schekman -
I've not really spent much time in proper studios. The room itself where you're recording, and how you live while you're there is what appeals to me.
Feist -
Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
J. D. Salinger -
I'm addicted to avocados, and I'll put them with anything, particularly chillies. Can you imagine if they became extinct? That would be like the apocalypse, no?
Gael Garcia Bernal -
It was so strange. I knew that Josephine Baker had performed on the same stage but that night I felt it. Many of the same people who worked with Josephine Baker are still here. They know what they're doing. And that was a very comfortable feeling.
LaToya Jackson
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The custom of speaking to God Almighty as freely as with a slave - caring nothing whether the words are suitable or not, but simply saying the first thing that comes to mind from being learnt by rote by frequent repetition - cannot be called prayer: God grant that no Christian may address Him in this manner.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
Hans-Ulrich Obrist -
Charity creates a multitude of sins.
Oscar Wilde -
Before 'Titanic,' yes, I had done some things and, yes, I had been nominated for an Academy Award, but I had never been sort of world-famous. And I suppose, yes, I am really famous now. But I feel embarrassed to say that because it's just a bit daft for me.
Kate Winslet -
I haven't any strength, I haven't any character, I'm a born tool. I haven't any destiny. All I have is dreams. And now other people run them.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.
Manal al-Sharif
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I tried reading Hilbert. Only his papers published in mathematical periodicals were available at the time. Anybody who has tried those knows they are very hard reading.
Alonzo Church -
I think Cate Blanchett is fabulous - she just shines in everything she does - and I'm a big Susan Sarandon fan.
Malin Akerman -
It is harder to get into Deloitte than into the University of Pennsylvania.
Punit Renjen -
I feel I have a divine mandate to go and tell the people of this world that it is possible to be strong in the Lord Jesus Christ. We are in training for the tribulation, but more than sixty percent of the Body of Christ across the world has already entered into the tribulation. There is no way to escape it. We are next.
Corrie Ten Boom -
Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
Thomas Carlyle