Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I had always wanted to write a song called, The Vicious Circle. I always thought it was like, the kids are born there, they grow up there, they die there.
Mac Davis
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Different people get different things out of the images. It doesn't matter what it's about, all that matters is how it makes you feel.
Adam Jones
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I look back at photographs and I remember at the time I thought I was not very attractive.
Barbara Cook
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When you are romancing a woman in a relationship, it should be poetic. It should have layers.
Kangana Ranaut
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It is from the traditional family that we absorb those universal ideals and principles which are the teaching of Jesus, the bedrock of our religious faith. We are taught the difference between right and wrong, and about the law, just punishment and discipline.
Kamisese Mara
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Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers.
Isaac Asimov
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To every disadvantage there is a corresponding advantage.
W. Clement Stone
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There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.
Dan Aykroyd
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I’m not only uninterested in having children. I am opposed to having children. Having a purebred human baby is like having a purebred dog; it is nothing but vanity, human vanity.
Ingrid Newkirk
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Politics is the business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit. A politician is anyone who asks individuals to surrender part of their liberty- their power and privilege- to State, Masses, Mankind, Planet Earth, or whatever. This state, those masses, that mankind, and the planet will then be run by ... politicians.
P. J. O'Rourke
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It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.
Samuel Beckett
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Oofy, thinking of the tenner he had given Freddie, writhed like an electric fan.
P. G. Wodehouse
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However, I had a chance encounter with an admissions officer of Stevens Institute of Technology, who so impressed me by his erudition and enthusiasm for the school that I changed course and entered Stevens Institute.
Frederick Reines
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Leaves die, but trees do not. They only undress.
Henry Ward Beecher
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'Impressionism' was the name given to a certain form of observation when Monet, not content with using his eyes to see what things were or what they looked like as everybody had done before him, turned his attention to noting what took place on his own retina (as an oculist would test his own vision).
John Singer Sargent
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I believe that anyone can be successful in life, regardless of natural talent or the environment within which we live. This is not based on measuring success by human competitiveness for wealth, possessions, influence, and fame, but adhering to God's standards of truth, justice, humility, service, compassion, forgiveness, and love.
Jimmy Carter
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Violence does even justice unjustly.
Thomas Carlyle