Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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Like life, peace begins with women. We are the first to forge lines of alliance and collaboration across conflict divides.
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Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.
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I made a lot of movies that people loved when I was a kid, but I didn't have any real relationship to them.
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My younger brother's death in Vietnam was both sobering and cause for reflection. In 'Fallen Angels' I wanted to dispel the notion of war as either romantic or simplistically heroic.
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I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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But due to the present regulations the other drivers have better chances again. This brings back the tension.
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I had a strong vision for 'The Best Man Holiday,' so I was able to translate that to the actors and ultimately to the screen. Things can't get too heavy or too outrageously funny; it has to strike a balance. Tone is everything. If you've set the right tone, you can get away with a lot of stuff. You can get away with making people cry.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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My imagination is a twisted place.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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I think it's horrible that people have to be told. Don't smoke! Everybody knows it's bad for the health. But they have to forbid it.
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The capital goes wherever the opportunities are.
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Truly, my first love.
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My art and poetry is very political now. Because you've got to find that truth within you and express yourself. Somewhere out there, I know, there will be people who will listen.
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I grew up being obsessed with old Hollywood and loving the history, what's behind the scenes, and what people don't know.
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In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as primitive.
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Force may make hypocrites, but it can never make converts.
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It is part of my creed that the only poetry is history, could we tell it right.
