Thomas Carlyle Quotes
No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
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They used to photograph Shirley Temple through gauze. They should photograph me through linoleum.
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First of all, the music that people call Latin or Spanish is really African. So Black people need to get the credit for that.
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You must live fully in the now to make your dreams come true.
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the ends never justify the means because IT never ends.
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Twenty years from now, will we listen to Lady Gaga? No. She might think she is making a stand for the freaks and the weirdos. But they're not going to have any decent music to play, are they?
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Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster.
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A dream itself is but a shadow.
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Is it conceivable that mysticism is a mark of inadequate art?
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I feel like it's a good time to be a writer. I'm terminally optimistic. It seems like the publishing industry is in the middle of a big transition, and that the rules of the game are still sorting themselves out.
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All my life I wanted to play music with love to every member of the audience.
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The thing is, I've never been a handsome leading-man type, so let's not kid ourselves.
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When people talk about the great quarterbacks, it's almost exclusively the guys who have won Super Bowls. There have been some very good ones who hardly get mentioned because they never won the big one. I don't know if that's fair, but that's the way it is.
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Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
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The press should not get special privileges - if they drive recklessly or put people in danger, they should be subject to every reckless driving and endangerment law on the books - but they should also not be singled out for special punishment.
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My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.
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Become so wrapped up in something that you forget to be afraid.
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Since the day Martin Luther King was killed, the black middle classes have almost quadrupled, but the percentage of black children living on or below the poverty line is almost the same.
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No conquest can ever become permanent which does not show itself beneficial to the conquered as well as to the conquerors.
