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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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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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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After the dotcom boom blew up, it increased the focus on questions like, 'Why should I trust you to help run my business? How do I know you're not going to go away like every other company?' That was hard. We had to keep proving ourselves.
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Every woman is a queen, and we all have different things to offer.
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We all have roadblocks; we all have challenges.
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We surely know by some nameless instinct more about our futures than we think we know.
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I think making movies and being in theater and TV, there's this beautiful little family. It's so intense that you form these little families, and that's what I loved.
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Everybody has the right to express what he thinks. That, of course, lets the crackpots in. But if you cannot tell a crackpot when you see one, then you ought to be taken in.
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We should be astonished at the goodness of God, stunned that He should bother to call us by name, our mouths wide open at His love, bewildered that at this very moment we are standing on holy ground.
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It's a great honour to be part of such an iconic brand as Paco Rabanne. As I said, it was totally different for me, so it was quite challenging in a sense, but it's an experience that I'm really enjoying.
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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.
