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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The stress on the financial system in the fall of 2007 was significant, but not so significant as to threaten the overall stability of the U.S. economy, although it did lead to the beginning of a recession at the end of 2007.
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Painting is a language which cannot be replaced by another language. I don't know what to say about what I paint, really.
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I tend more towards what some people call literary science fiction, but what I mean by that is that it is full of interesting language, experimentation, and ideas.
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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.
