Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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The smartest thing I ever did as a writer was hire a retired conservation agent to blaze a hiking trail for me. It's nothing fancy - just a narrow path that meanders for a little over a mile through the woods near my home. But that trail through the trees has become my therapist, my personal trainer, and my best editor.
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I don't think being a writer who is religious means you have to write about nothing but religion. When I do write about religion, it's to inform the story, not to push a certain agenda.
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I'd started acting as a child. But I wanted to see if it was something my true personality was interested in. I stepped away from offers when I took five years off to go to college. I've only really just decided to whole-heartedly embrace acting.
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I work with people like Spielberg and Abrams all the time.
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The glorification of sisters, mothers as the selfless Indian women who will do 'agni pariksha' and the one who sees her own betterment only in the betterment of their husbands and fathers, that has to stop. It's very regressive.
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If it seems like you are playing around and not practicing, that's when you know you really love it.
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I understand why so many Americans are fed up with government. The 112th Congress was almost universally derided as the worst ever. It was the most polarized body since the end of Reconstruction, according to one study, and I grew embarrassed by its partisan bickering, inactivity, and refusal to address the vital challenges facing America.
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I can't make up my mind whether I want to dance like Josef Brown or dance with Josef Brown.
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I got to play with Nintendo's Wii, yes it's a funny name and not very revolutionary but it was fun whipping your arms around.
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Utah is America's best place for business because Utahns make it their business to succeed - and we have the track record to prove it.
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Dad was a retired chemist who, in his 60s, fathered and fed me and my two sisters while Mum worked as a secretary. He made us curries, Chinese meals and strange concoctions. He was often unsuccessful.
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Visit any bookshop in Europe, and the shelves are filled with English novels and non-fiction books in translation - while British bookshops stock mainly English and American works.
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My mom is a sculptress.
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I have no idea why a guy would bring a jar of peanut butter to a concert.
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I don't wanna be liked just because I'm pretty.
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I actually was a musician in college, a composer and singer, and really intended to be the second coming of Leonard Bernstein when I got out.
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At the end of the day, I want the music industry to be larger than what it is today.
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The rhema is regarded as a more immediate word from God which we do not find in the 66 books of the Bible.
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There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
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Reason wishes that the judgement it gives be just; anger wishes that the judgement it has given seem to be just.
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Oh yes, my generation liked to be in some pain when they read. The harder it was, the more good we believed it was doing us.
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Healing opportunities can be disguised as people who really piss you off. Pay attention because they could be your greatest teachers.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
