Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Sometimes you just wonder whether people just don't have the sensitivity or decency. I'm a member of the media myself: I host a talk show. I know sometimes when you want to ask something, you can circumvent it with words and vocabulary. You don't suddenly just go out there and ask something directly in the pretense of being absolutely candid.
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I don't have Gandalf the White's certainty about everything.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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There's no specific mission statement for the 'Toast.'
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Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
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I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
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Everybody knew that I could type pretty well.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.
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As a writer, one is always a little blind to what one writes.
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Where a city is only focused on one aspect, it becomes a city without a soul, not a city people want to live in.
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The emphasis should be on why we do a job.
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Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.
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Even the pyramids might one day disappear, but not the Palestinians longing for their homeland.
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Freedom is popular. Bring it on.
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Giving subsidies is a two-edged sword. Once you give it, it's very hard to take away subsidies. There's a political cost to taking away subsidies.
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When I do my shows, it's really cross-generational. Sometimes there's three generations there.
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'I frankly doubt that.''Ah. That is your privilege. But doubt doesn’t alter fact, sir.'
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Under the rubric of conservatism, the Republican party of Bush I and II has been reinventing itself into what conservatives would have once recognized as a Rockefeller party reciting Reaganite rhetoric.
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As we have throughout this century, we will lead with the power of our example, but be prepared, when necessary, to make an example of our power.
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I don't like possessions.
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Spiritual character is only made by standing loyal to God's character, no matter what distress the trial of faith brings. The distress and agony the prophets experienced was the agony of believing God when everything that was happening contradicted what they proclaimed Him to be; there was nothing to prove that God was just and true, but everything to prove the opposite.
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Happiness... is not a destination: it is a manner of traveling. Happiness is not an end in itself. It is a by-product of working, playing, loving and living.
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The eye sees what it brings the power to see.
