Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Thomas Carlyle
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Mum and Dad split up when I was nine. We upped and moved from London to Sussex, and suddenly I went from an urban life to nothing in the countryside - with a new father and new life.
Sam Taylor-Johnson
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You see, O Greeks! The enemy already acknowledge the country to be ours; for when they made peace with us, they stipulated that we should not burn the country belonging to the king, and now they set fire to it themselves, as if they looked upon it no longer as their own.
Xenophon
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It gets very tiring when you are filming and then taken to a room to do school work. I never get any rest time. It is either work or school. Once you are an adult, you get to take a nap in between shots.
Cameron Bright
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If somebody wants to go to church because they like the ritual of it and want to sit in silence for a while one time a week, then that's great. If someone wants to go because they believe that God them and Jesus rose after three days, then that's great, too.
Patrick Wilson
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Still, intuitive assumptions about behavior is only the starting point of systematic analysis, for alone they do not yield many interesting implications.
Gary Becker
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You can tell when someone is driven by labels. If something is couture, they think it's important and wear it and sometimes make a terrible fashion mistake. People are shocked that I know so little about designers.
Zoe Kravitz
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Stay focused on the mission.
Naveen Jain
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My dad was always busy. You would pop round for a cup of tea, and within minutes you would see him walking past with a step-ladder. He was always fixing things.
Rachel Joyce
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We get a lot of raps as Americans for being small-minded, but in fact, when you really drill down to the core of the culture, there's an enormous amount of compassion and forgiveness and support.
Bartlett Sher
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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.
Pablo Picasso
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He punched me. If that's his best punch, he'll be in trouble some day.
Patrick Roy
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I think there's a very fine line between the type of performing that some actors do, and being in a state in your mind where you actually believe what's going on. If we weren't actors, what would we do with that ability? Would we not be slightly insane? Mentally ill? I don't know.
Samantha Morton
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We want to be number one, from the ingestion of content to the play-out to any type of channel. Everything between there, you should see Ericsson if you are a broadcaster, telecoms operator, or cable operator.
Hans Vestberg
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I read real books. On paper. You know, those printed books? I feel like this is the last thing I do to support my industry. I think they smell great, too.
Gary Shteyngart
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I grew up asking for everything under the sun for Christmas, but I knew I wasn't going to get it all.
Faith Hill
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My coaching days are now over, and I'm proud of what I've achieved.
Ottmar Hitzfeld
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It takes two to get one in trouble.
Mae West
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Beauty is very much broader than just to the eye. It is our whole, positive response to life. An artist is fortunate in that his work is the inner contemplation of beauty, of perfection in life. We cannot make anything perfectly, but with inner contemplation of perfection, we can suggest it.
Agnes Martin
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The only righteousness that meets the requirements of the Law is the righteousness of Christ.
R. C. Sproul
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A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The hunger strike at UCLA led to hundreds of students actually studying the farm worker experience and Chicanos in the context of Latin America, whereas they would have been on the outside raising fists and banners. So I count that as activism inside the classroom.
B. R. Hayden
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When the last thousand years, when India lived a life of shame, humiliation and stagnation, other parts of the world experienced not less than three revolutions, making three successive stages of human progress. India also must make that experience, if she is to come abreast with the advanced members of the human family. Should that take a thousand years, others would, during that time, march much farther ahead, and the process of human progress accelerates in proportion to its advance. So in order to catch up with the time lost, India must live in a few years the life lived by others over a period of thousand years.
M. N. Roy
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Heroes, it would seem, exist always and a certain worship of them.
Thomas Carlyle
