Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I told my father I wanted to play the banjo, and so he saved the money and got ready to give me a banjo for my next birthday, and between that time and my birthday, I lost interest in the banjo and was playing guitar.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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Thanks to 'A Prophet,' I'm known in a lot of countries.
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I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
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I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
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If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.
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I can't really dress rock 'n' roll any more because I'm the wrong side of 40, but I want that to be the fashion.
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I don't mind if somebody comes up to me and shakes my hand, but if I'm in the middle of a restaurant and somebody asks me for a picture, I can be a jerk and say no, or I can say yes and draw more attention to myself, which is exactly the opposite of what I want.
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The product of extraordinary wealth allied to a taste for the sumptuous.
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I only feel sorry for weak people. And mostly what I've come to find is that the weak people are the ones that are the haters.
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There is nothing like singing a song that 20,000 people know and are singing back to you.
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I used to live on a reserve, but I went back and forth between my reserve and Ottawa where my father lived, so I kind of had a double life growing up.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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War is not an exercise of the will directed at an inanimate matter.
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Sometimes great, banned works defy the censor's description and impose themselves on the world - 'Ulysses,' 'Lolita,' the 'Arabian Nights.'
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As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.
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Sometimes people who are Jewish are held to a higher standard which sometimes we take great pride in.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them.
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I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes.
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There's an excitement to officiating a well-played game. A lot of discretion, a lot of judgment comes into play.
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When I was a publisher of CNN, I took responsibility for the actions of the network.
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I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
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The times are very bad. Very well, you are there to make them better.
