Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
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Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.
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Even though I am the daughter of a poet, and my stepmother is also a poet, growing up, I didn't think I could understand poetry; I didn't think that it had any relevance to my life, the feelings that I endured on a day-to-day basis, until I was introduced to the right poem.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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Investing in gold is one of the wisest decisions that you can make as an investor.
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I'm not a cheater, but if I win Olympic gold and people are looking at me and saying I am a cheat because I've won, it's hugely disrespectful given the hard work I've put in.
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A good leader must be fair.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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Being a public company is really terrible for most companies. I'd say Facebook and Google have done a pretty good job of standing up to the incredible quarterly pressure to hit numbers, but most companies - and I've observed a lot now - don't do a very good job of that.
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My music, certainly, has never embarrassed me.
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Any terrorism is an attack on libertarian values.
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There was a door to which I found no key: There was the veil through which I might not see.
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I was in a music class when I was little, and they discovered I had a talent and could sing. From there, I joined this singing troupe in California, and I would just go sing at festivals in this girl group and perform as much as I could.
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What you wish to others, God wishes to you.
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Painting is self-discovery. Every good artist paints what he is.
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I can't bear the thought of my mother having to push me around in a wheelchair. I'd rather die quickly.
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I'm going to show up and do my job to the best of my abilities every day, every week.
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Everybody's part of the greater whole and skepticism and virtue are a part of that.
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Sometimes it takes a wake-up call, doesn't it, to alert us to the fact that we're hurrying through our lives instead of actually living them; that we're living the fast life instead of the good life. And I think, for many people, that wake-up call takes the form of an illness.
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Mathematics are well and good but Nature keeps dragging us around by the nose.
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This decree is very serious and we will not allow it to pass unopposed. (on Israel offers 10-month West Bank settlement freeze)
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What you see, but can't see over is as good as infinite.
