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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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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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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Phil Collins sold five times as many records as I did. Does that make him nearly as influential as I am? Nope.
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There will be no silence from Canada. Our friendship has no limit. Generation after generation we have traveled many difficult miles together side by side.
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Stubbornness and stupidity are twins.
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But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem.
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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.
