Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
Edmund Hillary
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Playing Juliet in 'Heavenly Creatures' changed my life, and the role of Clementine in' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind' opened many new doors creatively.
Kate Winslet
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Our quarterbacks were getting hurt; a couple got kicked out of school. The coach asked who wanted to try out for QB. I went and tried out, and from there on, I was a quarterback. I was ineligible in 10th grade until spring, so I did baseball. I started in left field and pitched.
Quavo Migos
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
M.I.A.
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As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.
Abbas Kiarostami
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My priority is the script. Get me a good script, and I will sign the movie. I think I should leave the casting up to the experts!
Nargis Fakhri
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I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.
Zinedine Zidane
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, so I know what that's like to grow up in a culture that's not your own.
Nathalie Kelley
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I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.
Lady Gaga
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
Kate Smith
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
Orson Scott Card
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
Yannick Noah
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
Ed Sheeran
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There is torture of mind as well as body; the will is as much affected by fear as by force. And there comes a point where this Court should not be ignorant as judges of what we know as men.
Felix Frankfurter
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And why, by the way, did it take Arabs to do what people here should have done a long time ago?
Ward Churchill
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Not as in rest she bowed, But large hot tears were coursing down her cheek. And her low-panted sobs broke awefully Upon the sleeping echoes of the night.
Lewis Carroll
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We live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom: our body.
Marcel Proust
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There's no slow build anymore where you get a little part, then you get a little better part, then a better part, until one day your agent calls you us and says, 'guess what, you're a movie star,' and you say, 'Thank you!'
Ellen Barkin
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It was a long hard bumpy road, but this great country kept me inspired with its beauty, character, and spirit, driving me to keep marching on and devoted to sing about its people and places that make Canada the greatest country in the world
Stompin' Tom Connors
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Children live in the only successful Marxist state ever created: the family. 'From each according to his ability, to each according to his need' is the family's practice as well as its theory. Even with today's scattershot patterns of marriage and parenting, a family is collectivist to a more than North Korean degree.
P. J. O'Rourke
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The grand result of schooling is a mind with just vision to discern, with free force to do: the grand schoolmaster is Practice.
Thomas Carlyle