Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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But acting just sort of happened and I found that I loved it. It was such a challenge.
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I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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There are few ways in which a man can be more innocently employed than in getting money.
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Fortune always favors the brave, and never helps a man who does not help himself.
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Women who give up their children for adoption are years and years later talking about how painful it was, much more than women who have abortions.
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If one man is representing India in cricket, then yes, blame that person when things go wrong.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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We have no chance to comprehend what goes on there - it's so dramatic, and people are so poor. We all felt bad about being there. Filming in India felt like we were going to borrow something knowing that we were never going to give it back.
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If anything changes shape or takes off without me, I'll come after you and kill you. I'm too type A.
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I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.
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My grandmother taught me how to read, very early, but she taught me to read just the way she taught herself how to read - she read words rather than syllables. And as a result of that, when I entered school, it took me a long time to learn how to write.
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When you're not concerned with succeeding, you can work with complete freedom.
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What I've discovered is that in art, as in music, there's a lot of truth-and then there's a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It's the moment that the audience falls in love.
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The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.
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'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.
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An important document of the paper of record at a crucial, make-or-break juncture in its long, glorious history, and a love letter to the dying art form that is the great American newspaper.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
