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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Woody Allen likes to do a lot of master shots. He likes to get the whole thing in one take, and so you could be going along doing a scene, and then the next to last line, all of a sudden, you stumble, and you have to go back to first base.
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Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.
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I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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We must commit ourselves to an 'all of the above' energy approach, with a major focus on increasing domestic production and expanding alternatives fuels, while increasing efficiency and conservation standards.
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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.
