Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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For me, family has always come first.
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.
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I think I'm going to have a lot of trouble.
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I'm probably the wealthiest Indian in America.
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The mind is the effect, not the cause.
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Just because I do a few comedy bits about gay people, that does not mean I'm out there promoting some anti-gay cause.
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You walk on a set, and you have no idea - that's why I don't storyboard. It's all possible.
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A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
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I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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Consumers want products that tell stories, have magic, and inspire.
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For my part, I make this pledge to all of you: The politics of division, of pitting east against west, urban versus rural, region against region, and people against people will have no place in my Administration.
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The most obvious criticism of aid is its links to rampant corruption. Aid flows destined to help the average African end up supporting bloated bureaucracies in the form of the poor-country governments and donor-funded non-governmental organizations.
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I have my fashion empire to build.
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A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
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You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.
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You can hear the profile of a sound, in retrospect, so much more clearly than you did at the time. And I think one of the things that's going to be nauseatingly characteristic about so much music of now is its glossy production values and its griddedness, the tightness of the way everything is locked together.
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A lot of my books deal with very controversial issues that most people often don't want to talk about, issues that, in my country, are more likely to get put under the carpet than get discussed. And when you talk about moral conundrums, about shades of gray, what you're doing is asking the people who want the world to be black and white to realize instead that maybe it's all right if it isn't. I know you'll learn something picking up my books, but my goal as a writer is not to teach you but to make you ask more questions.
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Question not, but live and labour Till yon goal be won, Helping every feeble neighbor, Seeking help from none; Life is mostly froth and bubble, Two things stand like stone, Kindness in another's trouble, Courage in your own.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
