Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
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I write in a small office at home.
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There's never going to be a great misunderstanding of me. I think I'm a little whacked.
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I think your most intimate thoughts are only honest when they're in your head.
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When you're 14, anything with a sword and a dragon is pretty cool. But when you're 21 and you've read 2,000 fantasy novels, you start to realize that some of those books, well, they weren't really good. OK, let's be honest. A lot of them were crap.
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I've always lived a life where people have said, 'Look at him. Who does he think he is?' And who I think I am is someone living life to the brim.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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I don't think anybody's really been successful with theorizing about value or creating a price theory.
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I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.
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When you make music, you're forming these invisible vibrations in the air into different shapes and consistencies and speeds in order to create music, and understanding how the math of that works just gives you more colors to paint with, and allows you to get to what you want quicker.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I try to work on my defense every game, every practice.
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I don't look at myself as a Scream Queen, and I don't plan on continuing on this genre route. If anything, I want to go very different places.
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I've always listened to and loved country music ever since I was a kid.
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To finish a work? To finish a picture? What nonsense! To finish it means to be through with it, to kill it, to rid it of its soul, to give it its final blow the coup de grace for the painter as well as for the picture.
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Now there is one outstandingly important fact regarding Spaceship Earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.
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The Spanish and the American audiences are lunatics. They are very passionate and, like the Irish, they don't have as many inhibitions. If you are playing somewhere like Austria or Sweden, it takes them a little while to come out of themselves.
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We at Chrysler borrow money the old-fashioned way. We pay it back.
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It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself.
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Things good in themselves ... perfectly valid in the integrity of their origins, become fetters if they cannot alter.
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Suddenly a pair of searchlights lanced out from the frigate. They swept across the dark expanse - bright knives slicing the night into pieces.
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What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they..
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
