Thomas Carlyle Quotes
A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
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What's lost in this whole debate, unfortunately, is that Social Security is not a giveaway where we take money to give to other people. It's a contract with the government... that's worked for 75 years. It's the most successful government program that we've ever had.
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
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I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
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In all the areas within which the spiritual life of humanity is at work, the historical epoch wherein fate has placed us is an epoch of stupendous happenings.
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Issues are never simple. One thing I'm proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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Enable every woman who can work to take her place on the labour front, under the principle of equal pay for equal work.
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I think the difficult thing is the transition between TV competition series and going into the actual music industry. There still seems to be a slight disconnect there.
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Stay focused on the mission.
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You're allowed to work hard and have good things and do good things.
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I have a naive outlook on life. That's who I am.
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Will Smith would not be Worldwide Will Smith if he had not insisted on going worldwide and touring with his films. You have to build that audience for people and allow for it to happen.
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Before I went to New Orleans, I was a little scared of New Orleans. I don't know why. I had only been there a few times. Something about it made me feel nervous, knowing a bit about the history.
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It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
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I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.
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Film is the medium for communicating not just ideas, but things of the heart.
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Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.
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I'm pretty smart with boys. I know how to handle them and I know what to do around them.
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I was just on the edge of getting married, and I was frenzied at the prospect of this great step in my life after having been a bachelor for so long. And I really wanted to take my mind off of the agony, and so I decided to sit down and write a book.
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There's nothing scarier than unlimited choices.
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Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.
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A mind that has seen, and suffered, and done, speaks to us of what it has tried and conquered.
