Thomas Carlyle Quotes
At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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The American Dream has run out of gas. The car has stopped. It no longer supplies the world with its images, its dreams, its fantasies. No more. It's over. It supplies the world with its nightmares now: the Kennedy assassination, Watergate, Vietnam.
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Democrats and Republicans have been very keen to make home ownership almost a national purpose.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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It was in the Papal States that I studied the Roman Question. I traveled over every part of the country; I conversed with men of all opinions, examined things very closely, and collected my information on the spot.
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I've always noted with some awe the reading habits of the Australian public. Australians read more newspapers and magazines per head of population than almost any other country in the world.
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Thank God I had all these family values or who knows where I'd be now.
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
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We live in a world of virtual goods where none of us own the 0s and 1s. What are you going to do?
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The shooting of the guns, that was kind of funny, because rolling a cigarette and shooting a gun aren't like normal things for a 13-year old girl!
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Germany can make a major difference in the lives of so many Holocaust survivors who are struggling in their later years.
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We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
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My style is quite clean, vintage, and almost French in a way.
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In my work, I construct texts and images. Between those two points the blur occurs. Each is altered by the other again and again, back and forth.
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To back away from fear is the worst thing you can do. Fear shows.
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People who follow all the rules and chase every trend tend to get forgotten - they look great, but they're not as memorable.
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I'm just writing a story that I want to read.
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My house has too many distractions. There's the email. There's checking my Amazon ranking. I know I'm the only author who's ever done that, ever. There's the fax. Too many distractions. I like to go out and write.
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My father is the reason I am the way I am today. He's why I acted up and he's why I prayed to be the opposite of him. We made up before he died but I vowed to never raise my kids like how he raised me.
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At worst, is not this an unjust world, full of nothing but beasts of prey, four-footed or two-footed?
