Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I think the American people deserve to have the issues debated, regardless of which side they're on, so that they are fully aware of what their representatives and senators are voting for and voting against.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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The story of Harold Fry and his unlikely pilgrimage began as an afternoon play for radio. For many years, I have been writing plays and adapting novels for 'Woman's Hour' and the 'Classic' series. So this was originally a three-hander play, broadcast one sunny afternoon on BBC Radio 4.
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I don't think I'm a follower, frankly.
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I've done comedy, and I've done drama. I've sort of been a journeyman in my career so far.
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I was working at the NSA. I don't know, I was just bored. I just knew that's not what I was supposed to be doing with my life.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I wake up at about 9 a.m., and have a few hours of school or time to relax. Then, I have practice at 2:30 p.m. with my team.
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The music field was the first to break down racial barriers, because in order to play together, you have to love the people you are playing with, and if you have any racial inhibitions, you wouldn't be able to do that.
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The slow philosophy is not about doing everything in tortoise mode. It's less about the speed and more about investing the right amount of time and attention in the problem so you solve it.
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I'm on the front line and I am a rapper.
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I'm involved in issues, and issues are about grass-roots politics.
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Fashion is an industry of action, not discussion.
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I've been criticised for writing in too complex a manner for younger people.
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We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates - which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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I've raised my daughter with no television.
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Good men must not obey the laws too well.
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What all the wise men promised has not happened and what all the dammed fools said would happen has come to pass.
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I've always been a little off, but it's worked really well for me, and it still works. After so many years, you have a look, you become a brand, la la la.
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[God] will not be used as a convenience. Men or nations who think they can revive the Faith in order to make a good society might just as well think they can use the stairs of heaven as a shortcut to the nearest chemist's shop.
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Happy the man who sees a God employed in all the good and ills that checker life.
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Men do less than they ought, unless they do all they can.
