Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.
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I don't ever try to make a song better than my last song. I just try to make it different from my last one.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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I don't want them to read what I'm writing and say, 'I think that's right,' and agree with me. I want them to read something and then walk away and be haunted by it.
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Anyone can rap if you've got brains. So I just went with it.
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I'm really just a normal person.
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I think a lot of people are drawn to seeing people that want to be better. We see it in ourselves.
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Life is like a B-movie. You don't want to leave in the middle of it but you don't want to see it again.
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I'm a goody-goody. I'm the person who sits in the back row, makes fun of the teacher, and secretly does the extra-credit work.
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What happened in Queensland is that people are facing high unemployment relative to other states - 5.7 per cent when I last checked.
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I always had acting work when I needed it. I think that is why, when I watch films or TV series in America, I find in small roles or in supporting roles really amazing faces, where I have the feeling these people have actually had a life outside of acting. I find it almost a pity that I've never done anything else.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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Classic economic theory, based as it is on an inadequate theory of human motivation, could be revolutionized by accepting the reality of higher human needs, including the impulse to self actualization and the love for the highest values.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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You don't have any civil liberties if you're dead.
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The problem with emotion was that it was clearly something important, but-at least according to the old philosophy-it was something to overcome.
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We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.
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At least I want to be making films that are somehow born out of me that are stories I want to tell. The challenge is figuring out how to do it where you can make them personal, yet still deliver to an audience a film experience that is satisfying and emotional, and that's what I'm trying to do.
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Using MO to link crimes can be problematic.
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Films set in 90210 are ten a penny. But there's rarely room to make films about a different postal code, to show the lives of ordinary Americans who have to live with very limited material resources.
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Burke said there were Three Estates in Parliament; but, in the Reporter's gallery yonder, there sat a fourth estate more important far than they all.
