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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My favorite pastime is staring out the window. When I go on tour, I can spend hours and hours just staring out the window, thinking about nothing. I love all that.
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Being a good comedian is a skill, but it's also a weird thing that only certain people can do. I always equate it to surgeons and how they can just cut people open and operate. Certain people are just wired differently, and I feel like comics are the same way.
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I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.
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Reality has always attracted me like a magnet; it tortured and hypnotized me. I wanted to capture it on paper.
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The beginning of a painting is a very energized, exciting time, and it generates most of the energy I have. If I've gotten 75 per cent of it down, then it takes an effort to really get up that kind of energy to finish it in the same way it's begun.
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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.
