Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Feminism was about making women's lives less constrained and giving them more choices.
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I think people probably think I self-start, but I don't... I'm an actor, and I like to be of use to the director. To be a muse.
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A single lie destroys a whole reputation of integrity.
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And if you take the cameras out of the courtroom, then you hide, I think, a certain measure of truth from the public, and I think that's very important for the American public to know.
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My mother always told me if you write about life, you will always be in the game. Just don't write songs... write life. I decided to take her up on that.
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I have absolutely no interest in playing the young male lead around which a story happens.
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I love the Royal Family and every aspect of Britain and what we have achieved in history.
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Behaviour arises from the level of one's consciousness.
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It breaks my heart that my father never knew my children. He should have been around for another 25 years.
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Why do people sit up so late, or, more rarely, get up so early? Not because the day is not long enough, but because they have no time in the day to themselves.
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I'm the type of person to put myself in everybody else's shoes.
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Without comedy as a defense mechanism I wouldn't be able to survive.
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What good is a beautiful dame with a Rolls-Royce frame, and a Volkswagen brain?
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There are many who talk on from ignorance rather than from knowledge, and who find the former an inexhaustible fund of conversation.
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To have a positive religion is not necessary. To be in harmony with yourself and the universe is what counts, and this is possible without positive and specific formulation in words.
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To ignore the unexpected (even if it were possible) would be to live without opportunity, spontaneity, and the rich moments of which "life" is made.
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Every 10 seconds we lose a child to hunger. This is more than HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis combined.
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The teenage zone: the stage when an adolescent's brain synapses quit firing while the rest of their body races toward adulthood.
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Starting in 98 when I was researching Traffic, I got to meet really serious people in Washington, which for a screenwriter was kind of a great gift. And I really valued these guys; I stayed in touch with them, and I find their point-of-view quite interesting.
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Hunger whets everything, especially Suspicion and Indignation.
