Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
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If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.
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I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.
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The first drama thing I really got stuck into was 'A Midsummer Night's Dream.' I played Puck. That's when I said, 'I want to be an actor.'
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I don't align myself with the West of the Muslim world. I align myself with what I perceive to be just and in accordance with my principles - the principles that I live my life by which are universal principles and that are embodied in the religion of Islam.
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I never said half the things I said.
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You can bring people together around the issue of economic fairness. I don't want to be a mayor that goes into one neighborhood and gets jeered, and goes into another neighborhood and gets cheered.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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I'm very into science-fantasy, that kind of swordfights and magic and technology thing.
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Luck consists largely of hanging on by your fingernails until things start to go your way.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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My father had spent years fighting cancer of the head and neck. He had numerous operations, and he was reduced and reduced and reduced. By the end, he had a growth so big under his eye that it hurt to look at him.
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The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
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Numerous studies have shown how when one person in a romantic coupling gets depressed, the other becomes more depressed.
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A lot of the futuristic space stuff seemed to me to be a very cool form of science-fiction, so that was my first real baptism in the genre.
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With any project I work on - not just 'True Detective' - I don't feel the need just to play a strong woman. I don't want the audience to say, 'Oh, she was so strong.' I want to play characters that are flawed and interesting.
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I've written books as acts of discovery: things I need to know and that I need to touch. And it's very dangerous work to deal with the most toxic internal elements... I feel like Madame Curie at my computer. I feel like I should be hemorrhaging from my eyes and ears.
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Young love is wild and outrageous, laughing at moderation and blinding us to common sense.
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[Science fiction is] a specialized type of fantasy, in which the prime assumption usually is a new scientific discovery or invention.
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Fear of things invisible is the natural seed of that which everyone in himself calleth religion.
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Basic religion is the reason we have morals.
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If you want to cultivate a habit, do it without any reservation, till it is firmly established. Until it is so confirmed, until it becomes a part of your character, let there be no exception, no relaxation of effort.
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To really know is science; to merely believe you know is ignorance.
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Fame is a distraction sometimes. You know, it's a distraction if you let it. So it's very important to stay focused, stay very connected to your roots.
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The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.
