Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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You can't say yes to every role, and you have to make people miss you. I don't want people to get sick of me.
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I won't ever direct a film. And I certainly won't write an autobiography. Only self-obsessed people want to write or talk about themselves!
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Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
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At its very best, the Western model speaks for itself. It's the model that put food on the table. It's the refrigerators. It put a man on the moon.
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Any nitwit can understand computers, and many do.
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Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind.
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We are sufficient to do everything possible to heal this Earth.
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I just don't let that mentality be a part of my world.
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I was not convinced with the outcome. One day off helped. I was rejuvenated. We know that from now on we cannot lose.
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..when writing a biography, you can't trust certainties. Just as you're about to pounce on something that will condemn you to a tidy answer, pooooofff! It vanishes.
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The best one-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln is still Benjamin Thomas's 1952 biography. David Donald's 1995 biography is a close second, and close enough that if you can only obtain the Donald rather than the Thomas, your book club will still be doing just fine.
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Geography is about maps, but biography is about chaps.
