Thomas Carlyle Quotes
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.

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I was never the pretty girl at school. I'm tiny and mixed-race. I grew up in a white area. I was always the loner.
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A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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As long as you get your education and you stay focused, you can do anything.
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The fundamental law of nature is to not know too much about yourself.
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It's wrong to say that there is no performance in a glamorous role. Even a glam role takes in a lot of effort. There is a fine line between being glamorous and being vulgar; you have to feel comfortable in what you wear.
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People like Spencer Tracy held up because they had the background originally, but to this day they never have changed Mr. Gable's role, or most of them.
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I wanted to better inform the world.
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I'm not a very religious man, but I'm proud to be a Jew.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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'After my election, I have more flexibility', spoken March 26, 2012 to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev while in Korea.
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And as he, too, seemed disinclined for chit-chat, we stood for some moments like a couple of Trappist monks who have run into each other at the dog races.
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Fear is the enemy of logic.
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The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained to liberation from the self.
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Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.
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Far from being entirely dependent on exogenous food sources of antioxidants, our cells have their own innate ability to generate antioxidants upon demand.
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I don't direct so that I can have an identity and so I can go on to CGI movies. I had a big identity as an actor, and that's not what I'm looking for from directing. Directing is a whole different goal.
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Productivity is being able to do things that you were never able to do before.
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Hollywood is full of men who need wraparound mirrors so that they never have a moment when they can't check themselves out. I love guys who don't worry about what they look like, who aren't aware of how attractive they are.
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If you try and work out at 4:30 in the afternoon, how many people are going to chip away at that time? Your boss, your job, your work, your family, your other obligations that you might have. At 4:30 in the morning, all those people are asleep, so you can do whatever you want.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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Without knowledge action is useless and knowledge without action is futile.
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Trust is the core of human relationships, of gregariousness among men. Friendship, a puzzle to the syllogistic and critical mentality, is not based on experiments or tests of another person's qualities but on trust. It is not critical knowledge but a risk of the heart which initiates affection and preserves loyalty in our fellow men.
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After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books.