Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
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Some desire is necessary to keep life in motion, and he whose real wants are supplied must admit those of fancy.
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Every leading lady I work with, I'll see if I can get a song out of them and put it on an album.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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The scientist is motivated primarily by curiosity and a desire for truth.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.
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When you put something out there into the world, there's all these words you don't want to hear, that you hope people don't say. I don't like anything that starts with 're' - like retro, reinvent, recreate - I hate that. It's always like living in the past - copying, emulating.
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A man with a million dollars can be as happy nowadays as though he were rich.
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Playing on the Burj Al Arab helipad was an unforgettable experience, and the view of Dubai was incredible.
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There isn't a flaw in his golf or his makeup. He will win more majors than Arnold Palmer and me combined. Somebody is going to dust my records. It might as well be Tiger, because he's such a great kid.
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When I was a teenager in New York, I was buying antique clothes. I still am.
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I've never been on a TV show for more than a season and you have to continually keep it interesting and you have to keep it connected, even as you change.
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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I used to MC a bit when I was young - 14 or 15 years old.
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Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.
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Whether or not we communicate it, I definitely seek my mom's acceptance and approval for everything. She has a strong commercial sense of movies and is a quintessential audience. When she doesn't like something, I know there is reason to worry. When she loves something, there is reason to celebrate.
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The Universe is the periodical manifestation of this unknown Absolute Essence.
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This is the strange thing about existing in time. As [Philip] Larkin puts it, "truly, though our element is time, we are not used to the strange perspectives open at each moment of our lives" - something like that.
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Consider in fact, a body of six hundred and fifty-eight miscellaneous persons, set to consult about "business," with twenty-seven millions, mostly fools, assiduously listening to them, and checking and criticising them. Was there ever, since the world began, will there ever be till the world end, any "business" accomplished in these circumstances?
