Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I destroyed a lot of guitars trying to get them to do what I wanted, but I learned something from every guitar I tore apart, and discovered even more things. Things like if the string is not straight from the bridge saddle to the nut, you're going to have friction.
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As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
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The charm of Brittany is to be found in the people and in the churches. The former, with their peculiar costumes and their customs, are full of interest, and the latter are of remarkable beauty and quaintness.
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See, justice is a joke in this country, and it stinks of its hypocricy.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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I can never let the guy across from me be in better shape. I have to be the best-conditioned guy.
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As an entrepreneur, what drives you has to be the good news; otherwise, you just don't get out of bed.
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But one of the things I learned is that when you fight for something you believe in and you tell the truth and you do your best, you can always hold your head up high and no one can take that away from you.
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I'm really interested in playing my age.
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It has been a great working experience with Sreenu Vaitla.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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The bar is set pretty low if you want to be a hip, accessible conservative.
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I love what TLC did with the baggy pants. I love a lot of throwbacks.
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It's ridiculous that we are in a place where we feel like we can classify and dismiss certain groups of people just because of the way they look, or we have these standards of health - like, cellulite is something you need to get rid of. No, it isn't. It's just a part of people's bodies.
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Secular humanists can sit around and talk about their love of humanity, but it doesn't stack up against a two-millennium-old funeral high mass.
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In the Western tradition, the first writers were teachers and historians, vastly traveled, who spiced their reports with fantasies. They were also poets who sang and entertained prince and pauper.
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I can't play guitar if I blow my arm out.
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I would not have been here if I was not from a political family.
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What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare for all, tuition-free public college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal-justice reform.
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We can learn from IBM's successful history that you don't have to have the best product to become number one. You don't even have to have a good product.
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I know that history is simultaneously a bloody mess and a collection of feats so inspiring and amazing they make you proud to share the same DNA structure with the rest of humanity. I know you'd better focus on the good stuff or you're screwed.
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Whatever the skill of any country may be in the sciences, it is from its excellence in polite learning alone that it must expect a character from posterity.
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It is well to fetter the wings of our fancy and restrain its flights.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
