Thomas Carlyle Quotes
To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
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Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise.
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Concepts of justice must have hands and feet to carry out justice in every case in the shortest possible time and the lowest possible cost. This is the challenge to every lawyer and judge in America.
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Fiction should be about moral dilemmas that are so bloody difficult that the author doesn't know the answer.
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If you just keep your head down, work, and put it on the bottom line, sooner or later that takes care of everything else.
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When you grow up around it, I just watched my father work really hard. He wasn't around as much as I would have liked. And when I grew up, I understood why.
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In film, you can't go into analytical explorations because the audience will reject that.
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Maui reminded me of San Diego: beautiful, but crowded.
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Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.
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There are so many things about which some old man ought to tell one while one is little; for when one is grown one would know them as a matter of course.
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There's usually one piece in 'Vanity Fair' every month that grabs me, but when it presents hatchet jobs without substantiation to impress its liberal friends, I laugh first, then toss.
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If anything, game development is even more of a team effort than making a movie, so for individuals to get credit for making a game is absolutely insane.
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I always watch superhero movies, and I like the action and the fighting and all the different kinds of powers.
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They teach anything in universities today. You can major in mud pies.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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I'm a very ritualistic, routine-oriented person, and I discovered over the years that I love working Monday through Friday.
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I prefer the old masters, by which I mean John Ford, John Ford, and John Ford.
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I'm not really interested in politics, because I think it's just too removed from my own life. If there's a war, though, or a disaster, I want to know what's happening.
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I had a teacher in college who drastically changed the course of my life by telling me that he believed in me as an actor. I never received that support before, and it inspired to me to such a degree that I never looked back. He taught me that it's okay to be crappy; it's okay to fight; it's okay to go to any length.
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The electronic age is a world in which causes and effects become almost interchangeable, as in music structures. (p. 99)
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A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray."
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I met with amnesiacs and savants, educators and scientists, to try to understand what memory is, why it works, why it sometimes doesn't, and what its potential might be.
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Leonardo DiCaprio is a rare phenomenon. Whereas for so many celebrities an interest in the environment is a fashionable accessory, for DiCaprio it is a thread that runs through everything he does.
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God gives everyone the same amount of talent. It's just up to you to korek (dig).
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To each is given a certain inward talent, a certain outward environment or fortune; to each by wisest combination of these two, a certain maximum capacity.
