Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
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I get kind of sad when I look at all of my magazines and think about how at one time I was much more impressed with a certain fashion editorial, or how I feel like I can't really relate to being that excited about fashion anymore. Maybe it's being jaded, but I honestly like that now, when something's really good, I feel more affected by it.
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Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.
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I'm extremely fascinated by marriage. I want to study marriage. I want to learn about it. I want to know it. I want to figure out whether or not I want to do it. I'm not just going to leap into it, because that's not good for anybody.
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One of the great political and economic challenges of our time is figuring out the balance between wealth that benefits society and wealth that distorts.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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Companies like I.B.M. have offered women scholarships to study engineering for years, and women engineers routinely get higher starting salaries than men.
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If you believe that your thoughts originate inside your brain, do you also believe that television shows are made inside your television set?
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I'm one of those crazy people, if I'm watching the trailer for a movie and I'm really excited by it, I'll turn it off because I don't want to know anything. I want to be surprised because I love that more than knowing anything.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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I have truly eclectic taste in music, and I seem to cycle through phases in terms of to what's inspiring me. I'll go from Beethoven to Sigur Ros; world music, Brit-pop, classic rock, blues/jazz, even the odd bit of heavy metal.
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Of course I wanted children. Bright, gorgeous, loving children. I could almost see them.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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I began to write in an enclosed, self-confident literary culture. The poet's life stood in a burnished light in the Ireland of that time. Poets were still poor, had little sponsored work, and could not depend on a sympathetic reaction to their poetry. But the idea of the poet was honored.
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I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
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I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.
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Beauty is the first present nature gives to women and the first it takes away.
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Nobody represents America’s values better than the American people, and I believe this contact will ultimately do more to empower the Cuban people.
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What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.
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I'm not working on the Great American Novel. All I am doing, I hope, is entertaining readers.
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And maddest of all, to see life as it is and not as it should be.
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My great goal in life is to try to remember that everything is of equal value.
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There is always hope in a man that actually and earnestly works: in Idleness alone is there perpetual despair.
