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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If you're an artist, you're an artist; that's the only way I can explain it.
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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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In order to have the next generation of modems, you would need to pour in even more R&D spending. We came to the conclusion that we're going to have a tough time to really see that we are going to succeed in the modems business.
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As the 19th century teetered into the 20th, the clank of typewriter keys went from solo to symphony. They were the weapon of choice for professional writers, the business elite, people with things to say and the need to say them quickly.
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There are certainly moments in the story room where you watch the movie die on the table. You put A next to B, and suddenly none of it lines up anymore. We feel that all the time. It's a terrible feeling.
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I can sit in front of the TV and watch an old romantic film and be transfixed.
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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?
