Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I burp, I fart. I'm a real woman.
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I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
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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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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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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 will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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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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I think what makes me different from the average Joe is that I feel free to be myself and express myself in the way that I want. If that makes you mad, we're living in a world of dire straits. If anything, it makes you more sane.
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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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Where you don't have people who have strong intellectual capacity, you get demagoguery.
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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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It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.
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We think that because we dwell inside our bodies that we are separate from other people who dwell inside theirs.
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If you can’t out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you’re toast anyway.
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Talk that does not end in any kind of action is better suppressed altogether.
