Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I'm always shocked when I see myself because I don't recognize myself.
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I never told a victim story about my imprisonment. Instead, I told a transformation story - about how prison changed my outlook, about how I saw that communication, truth, and trust are at the heart of power.
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My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
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In almost everything, experience is more valuable than precept.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.
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It takes one person to give you a big chance.
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You should not do an autobiography if you want to tell the truth. There are a lot of things I know about people. If I can't say something good about a person, I don't want to say anything. And since I don't want to say anything bad, I won't write a book.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
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That is the meaning of the Trump brand - being the boss who is so rich and so powerful he can do whatever he wants. So the way in which he ran for president was to embody that idea as fully as he possibly could with his outrageousness.
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Where all men think alike, no one thinks very much.
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I don't let many things that are superficial keep me in a box.
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I want to be in love with what I do at all times, and I want to stay in love.
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I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.
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I was one of the only people of color at my grade school and also my high school. It's weird recollecting on my childhood, I think, because my brothers are all white. We all share the same father but different mothers. I guess I kind of associated white, but I was occasionally reminded in a really negative way that I wasn't.
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I'm so grateful that anyone has connected with my songs, let alone millions of people.
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Being married, I've got so many things to do that I am the last to do things for myself. Taking care of my body has been difficult, but I am doing the best that I can.
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My fan base is really expanding into an inter-generational thing - it's what every artist probably hopes for.
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I'm not as good a prose writer as I'd like to be, but I never aspired to that.
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I know who I am as an artist and I know what my sound is, but I wanted to know what I could do in order to take it to that next level. So the experiences I had last year of moving to California and traveling to places like Rome and Nicaragua where I met a lot of people just had a really big impact in my life.
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Calculation never made a hero.
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Experience of actual fact either teaches fools or abolishes them.
