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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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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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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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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I identify as an agent when I'm agenting, and I identify as an author when I'm writing. I expect both those things to be true for as long as I'm able to do them.
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Stop waiting for others to tell you what you can do. Start putting faith into your own strengths and talents. Instead of questioning whether you can reach your goals, move forward with conviction and confidence.
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We need enlightenment, not just individually but collectively, to save the planet. We need to awaken ourselves. We need to practice mindfulness if we want to have a future, if we want to save ourselves and the planet.
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When we were told that by freedom we understood free enterprise, we did very little to dispel this monstrous falsehood. Wealth and economic well-being, we have asserted, are the fruits of freedom, while we should have been the first to know that this kind of happiness has been an unmixed blessing only in this country, and it is a minor blessing compared with the truly political freedoms, such as freedom of speech and thought, of assembly and association, even under the best conditions.
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'Tis blessed to bestow, and yet, Could we bestow the gifts we get, And keep the ones we give away, How happy were our Christmas day!
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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.
