Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
Quotes to Explore
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One of the best teaching experiences Ed Schein and I had when we were teaching at MIT in the 1960s was inventing a course on leadership through film.
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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When you are poor, you'll have to think of ways to be better off.
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You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.
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I'm a big fan of the 'Rocky' series. Given the chance, I'd love to meet Sylvester Stallone. But apart from boxing, I'm an ardent fan of tennis and football.
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Under the all-encompassing aid system, too many places in Africa continue to flounder under inept, corrupt and despotic regimes who spend their time courting and catering to the demands of the army of aid organizations.
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That's what's interesting about the Lower East Side: It's New York, but it's also edgy. It's not as stuffy as Tribeca or Soho.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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I am pretty hard on myself. But I think that's how it has to be if you want to keep growing as an actor.
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The hardest thing about writing, for me, is facing the blank page.
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No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.
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A fallen lighthouse is more dangerous than a reef.
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I've always wanted to do a boxing movie.
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Long skirts are annoying; they get in the way.
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We grew up listening to alternative music from the '90s, and there was no shame in being on a major label and still making the music you wanted to make. I feel like rap rock came around and drew a line in the sand, and everybody that was like me ran away from that and started making indie-rock.
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Whenever you bring up women's internal workings, guys want to change the subject. Unless, of course, they're trying to change the laws.
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Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.
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But no matter how many times we re-rank the presidents, in another 200 years, the top presidents will still be Washington and Lincoln and Jefferson, because they defined what a president is. They are the idea, and you can't be better than the idea.
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And so there I was living in California from Brooklyn, New York, and it was this whole new world for me and I was meeting vegetarians. I thought, let me try this vegetarian thing. I got really into that.
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Once the mind has been expanded by a big idea, it will never go back to its original state.
