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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Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could spend actually launching your business and seeing if the idea floats. Launching gives you real, solid feedback, instead of the imaginary 'what if' scenarios dreamed up in a conference room.
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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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I went into the sciences very early on, but to me, economics pervades so much more of our lives and our existence.
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When you are 16 there is no fear whatsoever. As you get older you play in more important games and that is when you start thinking about what will happen if you win or lose.
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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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Once someone I was working with said, 'You know, Vanna, some people think about what they're having for lunch tomorrow and you're thinking hundreds of years into the future.'
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One person can make all the difference in the world. For the first time in recorded human history, we have the fate of the whole planet in our hands.
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The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
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One man, she thought then, could build or destroy, could change time and history, for better or worse. One man. Or one woman.
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History is the essence of innumerable biographies.
