Thomas Carlyle Quotes
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
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Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.
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I am Patrick, a sinner, most uncultivated and least of all the faithful and despised in the eyes of many.
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When people are like, 'What do you think of this vampire craze?' - well, I don't really feel like it ever ended, personally, 'cause I've always been into them, like 'Underworld.'
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Some kids go walking in the mountains, but I just went to the cinema. So when I told my parents I wanted to be an actor, even though this wasn't normal for Arab kids or anyone in the town, they were sort of expecting it and were very supportive.
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Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.
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Reading was not just an escape or a Band-Aid; it was a deep form of feeling seen and recognized, and being able to see and recognize other kindred spirits. My dad was a writer, too, which also likely had something to do with that.
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The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.
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We need an honest politician in charge who doesn't care whether they are re-elected and is prepared to make the unpopular decisions.
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For me the visual is just as important as the music. I would never record without my red lipstick. It was my way of getting into character, sort of like Method singing.
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No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.
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A young man had become possessed by a devil. The thing within him burst into loud lamentation and departed from the man. At once the youth's eye fell out on his cheek, and the whole of the pupil which had been black became white.
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We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas.
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Allowing ourselves to become a nation of silent, secretive, timid citizens is likely to result in a system of democracy and justice that is neither very democratic nor very just.
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My comedy is different every time I do it. I don't know what the hell I'm doing.
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Appreciate what you've got and follow your heart and you're all good. Don't over-complicate things.
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To do nothing by halves is the way of noble spirits.
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A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition—besides inherited aptitudes and qualities—which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions.
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The North American Church is at a critical juncture. The gospel of grace is being confused and compromised by silence, seduction, and outright subversion. The vitality of the faith is being jeopardized. The lying slogans of the fixers who carry religion like a sword of judgment pile up with impunity. Let ragamuffins everywhere gather as a confessing Church to cry out in protest. Revoke the licenses of religious leaders who falsify the idea of God. Sentence them to three years in solitude with the Bible as their only companion.
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Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco.
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The Bill of Rights never gets off the page and into the lives of most Americans.
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Me in drag is kind of scary, actually. It's frightening. I actually look pretty good.
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For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
