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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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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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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I think talking about one's love life is always... It's a Pandora's box, best kept in journals.
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If you look at me close enough, there's a small resemblance to a chicken nugget. I don't know if it's my skin texture or my hair, but the resemblance is definitely there.
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Mitt Romney says he believes in America and that he will restore American exceptionalism. I have news for him, we already have an exceptional American as president and we believe in Barack Obama.
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Never underestimate the value of an idea. Every positive idea has within its potential for success if it is managed properly.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Go, bid the soldiers shoot.
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Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.
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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.
