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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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The battle of Austerlitz is the grandest of all I have fought.
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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.
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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.
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An entertainer should in his public performance keep himself out of any controversy, political or otherwise.
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The best thing about my job, though, is stopping at the end of the day and rejoining the human universe.
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We have a saying in France. A dog doesn't make a cat.
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As far as songwriting, my inspirations came from love, life and death, and viewing other people's situations.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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The best talent in the venture industry doesn't work in large companies and won't work in large companies.
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There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it.
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Our common membership of the E.U. provided an important external context to the Irish and U.K. governments working together for peace. It should not be discounted lightly.
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Suddenly, we are putting ourselves as the next dinosaurs. It's rather dark; we have narrowed our dreams. It is time to restore our visions. And so it's not a nostalgic idea; it is based with this unconscious need to restore a kind of dynamic for tomorrow.
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Single mothers have as much to teach their children as married mothers and as much love to share--maybe more. Yet their motives are often labeled selfish and single-minded--never mind all the babies brought into the world to snag husbands, "save" faltering marriages or produce heirs.
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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.
