Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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So many boys and girls talk the same way, listen to the same music, look the same. If I'm out, I'll notice the person who looks different before I notice the person who's, 'really hot.'
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I became fascinated by marionettes, which I first saw in Venice. They were so haunted and so alive. You walked by them, and you could feel their presence, with their beady eyes just fixed on you.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.
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One must act in painting as in life, directly.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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We're still leaderless. We still don't have strong organizations that are fighting for us; there isn't a national AIDS organization out there worth squat in my opinion.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.
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Intentions count in your actions.
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Great ability develops and reveals itself increasingly with every new assignment.
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All that happens is that the destruction of human beings - unless they're Americans - is called collateral damage.
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If your kids want to paint their bedrooms, as a favor to me, let 'em do it.
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But as far as I'm concerned, I can still play defense.
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It is ironic that it doesn't matter how successful I am in any other capacity: ultimately, my parents' marker is 'Do you have a wife?' and 'Do you have children?'
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All movements go too far.
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To believe in 'the greater good' is to operate, necessarily, in a certain ethical suspension.
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Whatever it is, it’s OK because it’s what it is. Don’t be looking for perfection. Don’t be short-tempered with yourself. And you’ll be a whole lot nicer to be around with everyone else.
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The more you are getting older, you lose a little something. Of course there is another advantage, because of your long experience you can use it.
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Ballot formats should be standardized nationally rather than left to the often bad judgment of local officials.
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The true Church of England, at this moment, lies in the Editors of the newspapers.
