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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Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.
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I do not need any promise of eternity to be happy. My eternity is now. I have only one interest: to fulfill my purpose here where I am. This purpose is not given me by my parents or my surroundings. It is induced by some unknown factors. These factors make me a part of eternity.
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If you look at Charles Dickens's time, there were so many different levels of society and everybody understood their place in it, it was that complex and simple. I'm not sure we have that now.
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I don't go anywhere without clean shoes. That's one thing I've got from the navy.
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It is harder to maintain the balance of freedom than it is to endure the weight of tyranny.
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History is a mighty dramos, enacted upon the theatre of times, with suns for lamps and eternity for a background.
