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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I became so consumed with trying to live up to what the public expected that I lost myself. I don't know of anyone else who can say this.
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The National Socialist Movement has wrought this miracle. If Almighty God granted success to this work, then the Party was His instrument.
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I have scored some big-time goals. I've done well in Algarve Cups. I've done well in World Cup and Olympic qualifiers, Olympics. In big games when we're playing top-five teams. But yet, you never see my face or my name out there. And it has frustrated me my entire career.
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The public needs to know - they need to know as much about atrial fibrillation as they do about cancer and diabetes.
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I should like the whole race of nurses to be abolished: children should be with their mother as much as possible, in my opinion.
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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.
