Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I've always believed in experiencing everything in life. When you walk out with blinders on, you cut yourself off from the angels and the fairies.
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As you become known, the demands on you are such that you get less and less time to do the things you want to do. But if there are no demands, then that means nobody wants to read what you're doing anyway, so you're stuck.
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You get paid like a really good call girl. Walking offstage is like the walk of shame.
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In short, we lose the freshness and spontaneity of true conversation. These are areas in which everyone interested in self-improvement will seek to improve.
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Believe that time is going to help you do what you want.
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The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.
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When I successfully bring the Mamas & the Papas movie to fruition, I hope that people will say, 'She's also a producer.'
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Either what we hold to be right and good and true IS right and good and true, for all mankind, or we're just another robber tribe.
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It would be creepy if you knew my home address.
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The younger and healthier a woman is and the more her new and glossy body seems destined for eternal freshness, the less useful is artifice; but the carnal weakness of this prey that man takes and its ominous deterioration always have to be hidden from him...In any case, the more traits and proportions of a woman seem contrived, the more she delighted the heart of man because she seemed to escape the metamorphosis of natural things. The result is this strange paradox that by desiring to grasp nature, but transfigured, in woman, man destines her to artifice.
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'Quest' is a romantic name for journey, and I think 'fire' is a word that has stimulating connotations for all of us.
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I just want to not be me.
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I grew up as the ugly duckling, they called me 'la prieta fea', which means ugly dark one - that was my nickname.
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Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.
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Histories are a kind of distilled newspapers.
