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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To be entirely free, and at the same time, entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life that we realise at every moment.
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A good character is something you must make for yourself. It cannot be inherited from parents. It cannot be created by having extraordinary advantages. It isn't a gift of birth, wealth, talent or station. It is the result of your own endeavor. It is the reward that comes from living good principles and manifesting a virtuous and honorable life.
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I have long admired Paul Ryan and thought of him as the future of the Republican Party.
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We went to Japan and stayed an extra day just to go shopping. New York is one of those places where we never get that. If we're there, we're working.
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There is no such thing as a soulmate...and who would want there to be? I don't want half of a shared soul. I want my own damn soul.
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Success in life, in anything, depends upon the number of persons that one can make himself agreeable to.
