Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
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'Straight Outta Compton' is my first biopic, my first period piece, and I got a chance to kind of get out there like some of my idols, you know, like Scorsese, Spielberg, Spike Lee, the guys who came before me. You know, I'm feeling good about it.
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'Anna Karenina' is just a story about a woman falling in love with a bloke who is not her husband. It's gossip, rubbish - on the other hand, it's the deepest story there could be about social transgression, about love, betrayal, duty, children.
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I was a social worker for Baltimore families. Now I'm a social worker building opportunities for families throughout America.
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What happens is that, you know, on Mondays, at least in the Senate, you know, Monday night we'd have what you'd call a bed-check vote. Just to get, you know, the machinery of the Senate up and running so they can start the committee process; on Tuesday morning, things go. By Thursday, you know, jet fumes, the smell of jet fumes.
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When people say 'marriage' to me... It's always a means to an end. Everyone's so in a rush to define the relationship.
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I never stood for any president in my life, never voted, before Barack Obama. It changed my life to vote. It starts there with me. I never cared for politics before Barack Obama. I never thought it mattered to people like me.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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You know I'm proud that I was able to develop and produce movies that I wanted to make.
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Sure, I could of done it different... put my clown in a closet and dressed up in straight clothing. I could of compromised my essence, and swallowed my soul.
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It's really cool when, in every genre of music, you can listen to a song and know what era it was from.
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God is omnipotent, He is omniscient, and He is ever present.
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We need to commit to serve the Lord and our communities with the same diligence and faith that the pioneers had. We must ever be on our guard that we do not become casual in keeping God's commandments, in abiding by His laws, and in being honest and trustworthy in all that we do.
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We have these images, these icons before us that are not reality.
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Write your own songs. It helps you to mean what you're singing, which will then make it mean something to listeners.
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Say goodbye to the age-old stereotypes of seduction. Seductive, but not a seductress, a woman wears a scent to reveal her personality.
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Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.
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In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.
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For as men in battle are continually in the way of shot, so we, in this world, are ever within the reach of Temptation.
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Piety does not mean that a man should make a sour face about things, and refuse to enjoy in moderation what his Maker has given.
