Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
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For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.
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Always write as if you are talking to someone. It works. Don't put on any fancy phrases or accents or things you wouldn't say in real life.
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Calling it off comes easy enough if you haven't told the girl you are smitten with her.
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The word 'grace' means after we must have done everything humanly possible, we must leave the issue with God. That is grace.
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I auditioned for 'The Office,' and I don't know if it was a role I could do, but I liked the character. You do one take, and you're reading with a person who's just sitting in a chair and not really... you're not playing off someone, which is what I like to do. I like to play around and find the moment.
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The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
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A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.
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Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.
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I got to go to Malaysia, Germany, Switzerland, Madrid, America.
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Catholicism played such a huge part in my life, I would not have survived without my faith.
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An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
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The minimum wage was due for an increase, but it was important that we offset its cost to small businesses.
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We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.
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Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
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I was born in Bangkok in 1968 and grew up in Southeast Asia with my Thai mom and my American father, who first came to the region to fight in Vietnam and stayed to work assisting refugees.
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When I did these psychological characters like the drug addicts, the ones who were rejected and dejected, I started to feel a sort of melancholia which was very unnatural for me to have at a teenage. Then I avoided those characters.
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I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
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Miami's not anybody's poor cousin. It's an aspiration to live in this town, not something you have to do to promote yourself like some of the larger cities.
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Leibniz said, Music is the mind counting without being conscious it’s counting. An eclipse is maths; it’s the most beautiful maths there is.
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Romantic love was invented to manipulate women.
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At college, I wanted to be a poet. I liked the extremely concentrated language, the atmosphere of otherworldliness.
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Perhaps here we have a clue to the reason why royal rule used to exist formerly, namely the difficulty of finding enough men of outstanding virtue.
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Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
