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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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)
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On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth.
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Among religions in this country which do not teach what would generally be considered a belief in the existence of God are Buddhism, Taoism, Ethical Culture, Secular Humanism and others.
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Government restrictions are attractive to people who want to impose their pet notions without having to count the costs.
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Let me have my own way in exactly everything and a sunnier and pleasanter creature does not exist.
