Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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The world has changed - through technology, through wine-making techniques, the quality of wine is greater than it's ever been. Whereas ten, fifteen years ago it was very easy to find lots of bad wine, it's kind of hard now. The technology, the science - it's like, are you kidding? We're in the golden years of wine!
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The message was always, 'It's good to be pretty, but don't look like you're trying to be pretty!' Inherent in that is a lot of misogyny, I think, because the implication is, 'You must work hard to achieve a feminine ideal for which society has nothing but contempt.'
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No one is India.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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When I have to promote things now, sometimes I realize that I had a movie in mind, but in the end, it's a vision of somebody else, so I have to promote their idea.
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A lot of very successful businessmen share some of these sociopathic traits - a lack of empathy, seeing people as commodities, projecting an air of sincerity when everything is actually calculated.
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'Orphan Black' allows for people to have debates and theories and allegiances to different characters - to trust characters and hate other characters - but it doesn't tell you who is good or bad or right or wrong. That's the most exciting storytelling, in my book.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.
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My humble prayer is that all men everywhere may understand more fully the significance of the atonement of the Savior of all mankind, who has given us the plan of salvation which will lead us into eternal life, where God and Christ dwell.
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I go to the club and can dance a little. I'm known to get down.
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I don't like things set in stone.
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Lyrically I'm untouchable, uncrushable. Getting mad blunted in the S-500.
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Organizations want small changes in functionality on a more regular basis. An organization like Flickr deploys a new version of its software every half hour. This is a cycle that feeds on itself.
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They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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We took risks. We knew we took them. Things have come out against us. We have no cause for complaint.
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Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write – I find it gets in the way.
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Some of you will be successful, and such will need but little philosophy to take them home in cheerful spirits; others will be disappointed, and will be in a less happy mood. To such, let it be said, 'Lay it not too much to heart.' Let them adopt the maxim, 'Better luck next time'; and then, by renewed exertion, make that better luck for themselves.
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And whichever way thou goest, may fortune follow.
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Well, there are all kinds of gutters. Life will supply you with gutters.
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There are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.
