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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Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.
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Leadership experts and the public alike extol the virtues of transformational leaders - those who set out bold objectives and take risks to change the world. We tend to downplay 'transactional' leaders, whose goals are more modest, as mere managers.
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Ever since Romanticism, an oppositional mode, artists have the right, and indeed the duty, to attack social convention. But it is ridiculous and in fact self-infantilizing for them to expect to be financially supported by the general public whom they are insulting.
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A lot of the characters I play on Japanese shows are actually acted in Japan by women. I don't know what that says about me.
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The goal of yesterday will be our starting-point to-morrow.
