Thomas Carlyle Quotes
That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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Her death has had a huge effect on me. It felt like a big hole appeared on my left side - apparently your left side is your mother - which I thought could never be filled. Now I think what you have to do is fill it with yourself because your mother is part of you. I'm easing into that space, using it and being comforted by it.
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The creative works of the entertainment industry belong to the millions of people who make them and are not for others to steal or unlawfully distribute.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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Many's the dead author whose body of work has been marred by overzealous publishers or family members. If this happens to me, I vow to seek out the responsible parties and haunt them to the point of death.
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In times of joy, all of us wished we possessed a tail we could wag.
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Sylvester has a great popular sense, as good as any writer I've ever worked with. He knows what audiences want to see, and what they don't want to see.
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In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
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I think service is honorable, and that was always inculcated in me.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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The reward of a thing well done is having done it.
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Survey 2001: Men who never married, never had a child, worked full time and were college educated earn only 85% of what women with the same criteria earn.
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To be human is a problem, and the problem expresses itself in anguish.
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What I like about playing America is you can be pretty sure you're not going to get hit with a full can of beer when you're singing and I really enjoy that!
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Toil and pleasure, dissimilar in nature, are nevertheless united by a certain natural bond.
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Let the corporations do as they please - pillage the environment, falsify their advertising, rig the securities markets - and it is none of the federal government's business to interfere with the will of heaven.
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I like my airplane. It's as much a part of me as anything but my wife and kids.
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The sad thing about the optimist is his state of mind concerning himself.
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I love acting since I was little girl. I went to school for it; that's all I worked on. That's all I prepared for.
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That a Parliament, especially a Parliament with Newspaper Reporters firmly established in it, is an entity which by its very nature cannot do work, but can do talk only.
