Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
Quotes to Explore
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God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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There's no way you can predict what is going to happen in six months or two years in most businesses, and certainly not for businesses that are growing at the rate that we have grown.
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When I got '227' and broke out from the rest of the cast, I became a workaholic, and I was very lonely.
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So even though I consider myself a fairly upbeat person, energetic and things like that, I never do very well on happiness tests.
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I'm a big believer in exercise. I'm a bigger believer in eating right, which is simply with plenty of fruits and vegetables. I'm not a gym girl, though. I've never had a gym membership.
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Well, I'm a professional.
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Not to sound too pessimistic, but I just don't see me having the film career that I maybe hoped for after 'The Birdcage.' I think people just didn't know what to do with me.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Over the years, from serving in the CIA to sitting on non-profit boards, I have observed first-hand what the addition of even one woman to a meeting or to a decision-making body can do. Put simply, in very many instances, group dynamics improve markedly.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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I am married.
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There's a call to adventure. It's something in the inner psyche of humanity, particularly males.
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I love the Kathryn Bigelow example: she didn't just do war movies - she did them better than other directors.
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My place of refuge is definitely watching movies and playing video games. I know that's kind of hard to fathom.
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In a photo, you just do a click, but in art you have to put in so much energy. This concentration of energy and attention says something that other media cannot say.
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God made the integers, man made the rest.
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History is not a long series of centuries in which men did all the interesting/important things and women stayed home and twiddled their thumbs in between pushing out babies, making soup and dying in childbirth.
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Architecture wrote the history of the epochs and gave them their names.
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We're one of the most highly regulated industries, and we have to pay attention to what government is doing.
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To have any kind of a future you've got to give up hope of ever changing your past.
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Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.
