Thomas Carlyle Quotes
History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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The power of Twitter still never ceases to amaze me.
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Every village in Africa now has a cyber cafe.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Booksellers are the bartenders of the reading world. People share thoughts and interests they keep private from others in their lives.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Once humans traded their hunter-gatherer existences for more settled communities, we began a quest to make our lives better and more comfortable, but we've also been sucking precious finite resources from our environment ever since.
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I can change a light fixture, and I can do certain things. But I'm really bad in terms of construction. I can't do any of it on my own.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I like being in love, but loving is what is crucial to me. Loving is the reason to live.
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The amount of love I get from India, from Pakistan, from Asia, from Persia, Malaysia - people are just like, 'Brown boy doing it, brown boy doing it!'
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Do you know how many companies have wanted me to do an energy drink for them because I named my book 'Crush It!'? It might be fun one day, but right now I think it would undermine the personal brand I've built.
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Growing up in Australia, space exploration wasn't something I was too aware of.
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To be employed in the entertainment industry is a miracle.
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When you have a bunch of comfortable upholstered pieces, a single bronze or brass chair really turns the energy up.
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I am definitely a spiritually centered person and that is usually one of my biggest guiding lights beyond music.
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They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
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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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Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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There's no map to human behaviour.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
