Thomas Carlyle Quotes
It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
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I come from an immigrant family, but I know no other nationality apart from British.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.
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North as well as South, the Negroes have emerged from slavery into a serfdom of poverty and restricted rights.
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Understand that legal and illegal are political, and often arbitrary, categorizations; use and abuse are medical, or clinical, distinctions.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.
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The fact that hype exists doesn't prove that something is not important.
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I think the most rewarding part for me is kind of not knowing where the story's going next, and then finding out and being blown away by it.
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I'm not a size 0, and I'm nowhere close to it. But, I don't want anyone to know what I am so I like to design clothes so you don't know what's going on under there.
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Injections are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
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My life is quite physical anyway. When you are three-foot-six you kind of have to climb stuff now and again, and you find yourself in quite precarious situations just to manage in what is quite a big world.
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Although they are unfailingly gracious, evangelicals are not so good at respecting professional boundaries.
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The Queen and Electric Light Orchestra harmonies are so distinct and fit in our songs so well sometimes, but we don't know how to do them properly.
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I'd like to follow in the footsteps along like Jodie Foster and Natalie Portman, who got their education.
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I work with structure, but I go outside the box and give it my own spin. I adore the challenge of creating truly modern clothes - where a woman's personality and sense of style are realized.
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I can totally identify with the younger kids. I'll never do what Jon Spencer did to me when I was 16, though. I made a tape with my friends and I put it onstage right near his mic stand by the pedal board and he pulled it out with his foot, kicked it to the center of the stage, looked me in the eye and stomped it to pieces.
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If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.
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You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.
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VH1 Classic is the destination for people who would be interested in a music talk show.
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But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate.
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Devin stood, turning toward the sound as Kunaya bolted in the other direction, her meal unfinished. He put his hand to his sword but didn’t draw it as a girl stepped out from the trees, leading a horse by the reins. She looked a little younger than him, but her bearing was confident, and she spoke with the poise of the educated upper class.
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'Iggy' was my dog - he was named after Iggy Pop - and 'Azalea' is the street where I grew up; together, they have the right amount of syllables to make the perfect name.
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It is not a lucky word, this name impossible; no good comes of those who have it so often in their mouths.
