Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
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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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When you're in college, you really don't know where you're going to end up, but you know who you want to be along that journey.
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Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.
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As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.
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Right now I'm still only 25 and I don't think the maternal bug has hit me yet.
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I wake up early in the morning and walk for an hour. If I have something to write, I prefer to write in the morning until midday, and in the afternoon, I eat.
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I never watch MTV. I don't have time to watch TV. And when I do, I'm watching the Discovery Channel. 'Deadliest Catch: Crab Fishing in Alaska,' that's my show.
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No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
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Leadership appears to be the art of getting others to want to do something you are convinced should be done.
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Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.
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For makeup, I swear by a base of Embryolisse, Nars concealer, that Bobbie Brown foundation stick, Pat's highlighter, a brow fill-in with dark brown eyeshadow and angle brush, a groom with Anastasia brow gel, an eyelash curl, and two swipes of drugstore mascara.
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I hate flying. Know why? Because no one really understands how planes actually work.
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I'm focused on football; focused on my family right now.
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The cause of war is preparation for war.
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A truly Suppressive Person or group has no rights of any kind and actions taken against them are not punishable.
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Simply follow nature, Rousseau declares. Sade, laughing grimly, agrees.
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The fortunate man is the one who cannot take more than a couple of drinks without becoming intoxicated. The unfortunate wight is the one who can take many glasses without betraying a sign; who must take numerous glasses in order to get the kick.
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I would say what you have to do as a screenwriter is strip the book back to find the skeleton. When you've found the skeleton - that's what you trust - you reclothe.
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I was lucky enough to go to boarding school for my high school years, and I had all the resources that I possibly could needed - squash courts and every book you ever would have wanted, every art supply.
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control.
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I couldn't tell you a good, bad or ugly pilot just from reading it, but I can tell you a character I want to play.
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Let me remind you this has been going on for years. We are bringing it to a halt. The harsh fact of the matter is when you're going to pass legislation that will cover 300 million American people in different ways it takes a long time to do the necessary administrative steps that have to be taken to put the legislation together to control the people.
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Habit is the deepest law of human nature.
