Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
Quotes to Explore
-
No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
-
As an actress, I think it's important to look back and realize that we aren't always quite as original as we think we are. There's this grand, textured history for us over the last 100 years of incredible writers, directors, and performers.
-
It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
-
I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
-
Things that came before, people and things and experiences – that does mean something to me. It doesn't mean I don't embrace the new, but I don't forget the past, either.
-
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
-
I would never say somebody had to vote for anybody. That would be terrible. I haven't said that.
-
I am essentially a hack, a commercial person. If I had a hobby, I would immediately make money on it or abandon it.
-
I feel it is time to lighten up and laugh about things and enjoy ourselves a little bit more.
-
I would also like to act, once in a while, but not get up every morning at 5:30 or six o'clock and pound into the studio and get home at 7:30 or eight o'clock at night, or act over and over and over every night on Broadway, either.
-
It really sucks to be the number two intelligent species on this planet; you can just ask gorillas.
-
Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
-
I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
-
I don't think I'm severely politically active. I care deeply, and I have my strong personal beliefs. I think America is dancing on thin ice. But I think it's bigger even than a political issue. I wonder about the evolution of the human race and spirit and what our goals and reasons for living are.
-
I was thinking the day most splendid, till I saw what the not-day exhibited;I was thinking this globe enough, till there sprang out so noiseless around me myriads of other globes.
-
Any brute will demand his right to be a law unto himself, beating his wife and his children as he pleases, and defend that right with his father’s rifle and think himself a patriot.
-
How does he do it? How does he master people without bluster or bullying? How does he make people fear him or love him, not in spite of his ruthlessness but because of it?
-
I have allowed the media to behave as it wants. ... I am not worried. The truth will certainly be known.
-
Evenings of paying to be rejected can feel like a male version of date rape.
-
We need to do more to prevent radicalization, the inspiration of terrorism in this country.
-
The greatest hazard in life is to risk NOTHING.
-
Every woman is multifaceted. Every woman has a switch, whether she's going to be maternal, whether she's going to be a man-eater, whether she has to kick ass, whether she has to be one of the boys, whether she has to show the guys that she's just as smart or smarter, she's just as talented or creative. Women suppress a lot of their sides.
-
I wanted to give men an accessible line of clothing that's comfortable yet stylish and will help them to present the best version of themselves. It's easy - when you look good, you feel good.
-
The merit of originality is not novelty; it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man; whatsoever he believes, he believes it for himself, not for another.
