Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Among my generation, there was a purist position that any contact with electoral politics was an unforgiveable compromise.
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Everybody has values. Now, you know it may be formed in a secular setting, it may be formed in an intellectual setting, but everybody comes forward with values.
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I'm not afraid of portraying anything on-screen.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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Fortunately, human forgetting follows a pattern. We forget exponentially. A graph of our likelihood of getting the correct answer on a quiz sweeps quickly downward over time and then levels off.
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Writers, not psychiatrists, are the true interpreters of the human mind and heart, and we have been at it for a very long time.
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TV producers want ratings and are willing to do nearly anything to get them. They gin up artificial conflicts and create an urgency for even the most minor of economic data points.
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I tell you, in this country, you don't get much of an education. Throughout high school, through junior college, which is all I went, I didn't know anything about the annihilation of all the Indian nations that were here.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy... was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn't have any barriers to it.
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The reason I was angry all the time was that Gloria Steinem and all those people, without reading my work, were saying all these horrible things against me.
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I'm on Twitter a lot of the day because I really like Twitter. It's great for jokes. But when I'm writing, I can't do anything else. I can't even listen to music. I just have to write, and then I can do something else. I can't multitask.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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I'm an affectionate person.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
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My life was pretty rough.
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You know, not even your British Queen is called just Elizabeth - she's Elizabeth the Second. There's only one Imelda.
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It's exciting to be able to be part of the block and tackle of building a company from a smaller base.
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I've always been quite conscious of it, though I don't know why. I would never overspend, and I have to know exactly what I've got so that I avoid going into overdraft. I watch my pennies, and I'm quite thrifty.
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Sinatra was just one of Mom's friends.
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Rest is for the dead.
