Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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There's a time and place for everything. You're younger, you might want to go to clubs and kick it, but as you get older, you start seeing that life has more meaning to it. The people that you love are the people you want to start trusting and start wanting them to trust you and start respecting them.
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You make movies for the people. If critics happen to like them too, well, that's a home run.
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When I approach guys in certain situations and talk to them about Christ, they know that I'm speaking to them in a way that's real.
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I was a huge comic book fan as a kid. The only problem I had with comic books is how expensive they got. I didn't have a lot of money, so I had to be very specific about what I wanted to collect. I think they're all somewhere in the basement of my folks' house.
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In a democratic age, you can't buck demography - except through civil war.
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Every book has to start with a first chapter, and I think that 'Middle of Nowhere,' 'Mmmbop' and 'Where Is the Love' are good places to start for us. I don't think it's a bad place.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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I gambled and I lost. I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us.
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I saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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When you tour, you regain the music and the connection with the audience.
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Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.
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I worked in feature film casting right out of college and spent a lot of time working with actors, directors, and producers.
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We must live fully in order to secrete the substance of our work, but we have to work alone.
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The more local and settled a culture, the better it stays put, the less the damage. It is the foreigner whose road of excess leads to a desert … a man with a machine and inadequate culture … is a pestilence. He shakes more than he can hold.
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'Of all graces, faith honours Christ the most; of all graces, Christ honours faith the most.'
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Both parents’ rights must exist primarily to assist the parents in fulfilling their responsibilities. Primarily does not mean exclusively.
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You'll never see me with a precision flick of eyeliner. Messy eyeliner became my thing by accident rather than design. If you can't get it straight, then just work it in around your eyes.
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The Unicorn Sonata … tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes - and our ears - to find it.
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Zen opens a man's eyes to the greatest mystery as it is daily and hourly performed; it enlarges the heart to embrace eternity of time and infinity of space in its every palpitation; it makes us live in the world as if walking in the garden of Eden
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I like knowing about everything, and I think that really helps me in my business.
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No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.
