Thomas Carlyle Quotes
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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I'm very content.
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I feel like I've cheated. I never knew what to do. I was never a good enough painter to earn a living, and so I drifted into the theatre, and I've had a successful life. I feel guilty that I've never done a day's work in my life!
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I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.
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Do I enjoy features? Yeah, I really do. Would I like to do some more features before I head to the barn? Yeah, probably. But I also love television. I love doing television because it's fast, and that I like a lot.
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Dyeing my hair has become a kind of addiction. I can't see myself as anything other than blond. Once you go blond, you stay blond forever.
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You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.
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I like power and I like to use it.
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I think the hardest thing about making music now is being a great dad at the same time. There's an insanity that goes with writing - a mad scientist thing that you have to go through - and sacrificing a kid's upbringing to do that is not an option.
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Judge Sotomayor is a liberal judicial activist of the first order who thinks her own personal political agenda is more important that the law as written.
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I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.
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Some people dream of success, while other people get up every morning and make it happen.
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I'd call my music rock but with pop hooks.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I always fall in love with qualities of people I work with.
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Both villains and heroes need to have a steadfast belief in themselves.
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You can blame my mom for some of my worst fashion moments. She used to dress me and my sister in a lot of patterns. Like, she would put me in striped stockings with a floral dress. Like, why are you doing that to me?
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What seems like a crazy idea today eventually grows. It's a 'with hindsight' thing. One day, someone will turn around and say, 'That was genius.'
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It's been amazing to watch, because for 'Thor', which was always a mid-selling book, to be in the top ten for every single issue since the reboot is just a great compliment.
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A good part of the trick to being a first-rate scientist is in asking the right questions or asking them in ways that make it possible to find answers.
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When I go to buy a book, I always ask if it is right for me at this time, something I need right now. I think a lot of people go out and buy books because they love to read. They read it really fast and then move on to the next book. I don't do that.
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Even if you are a best-seller you feel insecure because it is all so unpredictable.
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The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night.
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The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
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What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
