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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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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We wanted to be America's Rolling Stones, to be the biggest band over here.
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It was really important for me to create fun and trendy pieces for the plus-size market.
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We grew up in a very strange world, because my mother was up against it all when she had three black children.
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Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes one's fear, but the human being who has contact with it.
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It's a special place, and I believe in the prominence of America, and having America be and continue to be an exceptional place, and making no apologies for America being a superpower.
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You know, I only claim to play three instruments. My dad is a banker, but a drummer at heart; and my mom used to teach piano lessons when she was younger. So I can play some piano, play a little drums, and fake the bass - but banjo, mandolin, and guitar are my thing.
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Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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You could argue that if the average golfer plays a golf course with 430-yard par 4s and they always miss the green, that's good practice. It's definitely great practice to play a course that's too long for you.
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The main point of any spiritual practice is to step out of the bureaucracy of ego. This means stepping out of ego's constant desire for a higher, more spiritual, more transcendental version of knowledge, religion, virtue, judgment, comfort, or whatever it is that the particular ego is seeking. One must step out of spiritual materialism.
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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.
