Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Yoga is a life-saver.
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To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
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Morality for the upper classes, the gallows for the rabbles.
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I think there were a couple really good songs on 'Whirlygig.
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It's been hard to be a show in L.A. and be trendsetting, because the fashions are in New York... Not to mention that most actresses are all, give or take, the same size, between five-two and five-five, and 95 to 125 pounds.
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In Paris in 1964 was the first time I ever heard Dylan at all. Paul got the record (The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan) from a French DJ. For three weeks in Paris we didn't stop playing it. We all went potty about Dylan.
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I had the kind of family where I was told it was my job to study. They would work out the finances.
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An emperor knows how to govern when poets are free to make verses, people to act plays, historians to tell the truth, ministers to give advice, the poor to grumble at taxes, students to learn lessons aloud, workmen to praise their skill and seek work, people to speak of anything, and old men to find fault with everything.
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We are often celebrating technology and codes, but we don't really think about the creative side.
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I obviously prefer writing novels but I take my journalism very seriously, and I enjoy doing it between novels. It gives me an opportunity to move in the outside world.
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We must look at the lens through we see the world, as well as the world we see, and that the lens itself shapes how we interpret the world.
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To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all time, against our solitary and unstable opinions.
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With the mailorder, I wake up in the morning, I check my e-mail, process the orders, and then I just print everything out. And then for the rest of the day it's actually sitting with paper.
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For a sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it.
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Reason has never failed men. Only force and repression have made the wrecks in the world.
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The barrenest of all mortals is the sentimentalist.
