Thomas Carlyle Quotes
One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
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I've said it before, and I'll say it again. I've written 29 damn plays. Isn't that enough?
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A journalist is a person who has mistaken their calling.
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Change is inevitable, and you can't stop that change. You say, 'Wait, stop,' and it just drives right over you.
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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I always thought that one day I would be somebody. I would be successful in music, and I would have fans that cared about my music. At the same time, I really feel like an ordinary guy; I have been an ordinary guy forever.
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No one is above the law, not even the president. I believe perjury does meet at least the definition of high misdemeanor.
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Do the thing we fear, and death of fear is certain.
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When I wake up at 5 in the morning is it just to jog? Definitely not, I give it all of my efforts.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ.
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I don't watch TV.
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The gratification of desire is not happiness.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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What you wear onstage is a reflection of your artistry.
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Every day is Earth Day, and I vote we start investing in a secure climate future right now.
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I did not enjoy Cambridge. But I shouldn't blame Cambridge alone. I wasn't ready for university or for the wrench of leaving home. It was a big cultural shock.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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You can compromise between good, better, and best, and you can compromise between bad and worse and terrible. But you can't compromise between good and evil. And now people look at the other side as a completely different kind of animal and say, 'They are taking the country down the road to purgatory.' It's complete intolerance.
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A good man regards the root; he fixes the root, and ail else flows out of it. The root is filial piety; the fruit brotherly love.
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When I was 16 or 17, anyone could have had me if they sang the right song and recruited me in the right way. Which is why I've always had a sneaking understanding for people who took the wrong route. That doesn't mean to say I took it or even contemplated it myself.
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One is weary of hearing about the omnipotence of money. I will say rather that, for a genuine man, it is not evil to be poor.
