Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?
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I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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For clothes and accessories, I love my friend's boutique; One by One and UT.LAB for shoes.
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Shimeji are those odd-looking clusters of small mushrooms you often find in so-called 'exotic' selections at the supermarket. They have an appealing firmness that is retained during light cooking.
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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Fallout shelters are like bell-bottoms. They've gone in and out of favor.
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There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.
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I believe in only one thing: liberty; but I do not believe in liberty enough to want to force it upon anyone.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I had a wonderful mother who wanted my sister and me to have everything, even though money was a very prominent thing we didn't have. But we had a very happy childhood - pretty much ideal, in fact.
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I don't think that women need to smell interesting.
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Sometimes what you mustn't do is just as just as important as what you must do.
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We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.
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I'm really not interested in other people's opinions, because I think frankly most of those opinions are either misinformed and adding to this endless ball of hot air we have in our society where everyone thinks their opinion is valuable and sacred and what counts.
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I'm not comparing myself at all to him, but I like the idea that Ernest Hemingway always wrote about certain things he knew, he knew the ins and outs, back to fronts of what he was talking about. I love that as an inspiration for myself, to keep it true to what you know.
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Happiness, not in another place but this place...not for another hour, but this hour.
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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
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There is in man a higher than love of happiness; he can do without happiness, and instead thereof find blessedness.
