Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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In Hollywood, there's a network of creative executives, and when they hear something is good, it catches fire.
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There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.
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So I have this ability, if I may say so, to spot talent.
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My family and friends treat me as they always have.
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Funding for the original manned Voyager Mars Program was scratched in 1968, before humans had gotten out of Low Earth Orbit. Mid-'60s plans for a Venus fly-by with astronauts actually flying by it met the same fate.
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The distinction between reality and fiction in America seems like it is becoming really blurry. With its religious fanaticism, reality TV programs and fake news broadcasts being aired by the government, the States feel like they are entering the Dark Ages.
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You can't legislate or litigate good, healthy behavior but we must be willing to educate people at an early age about the affects of unhealthy living.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Ultimately, our goal was to be a band and be recognized for our songs and making records. And I think that has been the case.
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We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
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A lot of directors are overbearing and tend to make you doubt your instincts.
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If I'm pushed, I'd also have to admit I don't like people with allergies. They just annoy me. There seems to be something far too self-centred about it. 'No thanks, I'm allergic.' Why not just say 'No thanks'? I wasn't asking for your medical history, I was just passing around the nuts. Trying to be friendly, that's all.
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I have such pride in furthering the American musical and using it as a way to tell story.
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American music is a powerful ingredient in international music, and as much as it comes from within, it also comes from without.
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A private soldier has as much right to justice as a major-general.
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Capra is an old-time movie craftsman, the master of every trick in the bag, and in many ways he is more at home with the medium than any other Hollywood director. But all of his details give the impression of contrived effect.
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Laws are a fine thing on paper, but painful when no bribery can ease their bind.
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Painting is not what my life is about, but it is very important to me, and I am very lucky to be able to give some time to it. The time that I devote to painting is not a lot of time, but I do it 100 percent while I am working, and then there's nothing else that counts.
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The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity.
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Friends are the twenty-first-century version of extended families.
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Just because they call it a theory doesn't make it a scientific theory, ... The concept of an intelligent designer is not a scientifically testable assertion.
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Few of us can easily surrender our belief that society must somehow make sense. The thought that the state has lost its mind and is punishing so many innocent people is intolerable. And so the evidence has to be internally denied.
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Perhaps the one comforting thought I got out of this whole disgusting affair was that over the years when the government was tapping my telephone, it must certainly have heard some home truths from me about themselves, often couched in good Anglo-Saxon terms.
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I grow daily to honor facts more and more, and theory less and less.
