Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.
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I would love to be a role model.
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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.
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A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.
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I find the whole disdain for ageing crazy.
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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.
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Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant.
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I am a scientist. Mine is a professional world that achieves great things for humanity.
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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.
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Goddam money. It always ends up making you blue as hell.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Exhibitions are kind of ephemeral moments, sometimes magic moments, and when they're gone, they're gone.
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Charity creates a multitude of sins.
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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.
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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.
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While people are celebrating on Sunday we shouldn't forget the people who fought for lifting this ban are in jail.
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If you want to see a miracle, be the miracle....
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When I get to work with someone like Prabhu Dheva at the beginning on my career, why would I say no?
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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The first trillionaire in the world will be the person who mines asteroids.
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I think it's important for people to know that there's no such thing as a perfect relationship, you know?
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Stop a moment, cease your work, and look around you.
