Thomas Carlyle Quotes
There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
Quotes to Explore
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There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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I feel very grateful to be alive and well enough to make music.
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I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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Black women as a group have never been fools. We couldn't afford to be.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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On June 22, 1793, Vancouver's Discovery and Chatham anchored in Klekane Inlet. Archibald Menzies, the ship's botanist, wrote that on the evening of June 28, they were visited by eight natives in two canoes who brought them two large salmon. This is the first known published encounter with the Haisla people.
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On a ship, everything is enclosed: the people are right on top of each other and can't get up and walk away.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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The problem inherent in the surface of things, and only in the surface of things, is the heart of things.
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To expect an author to talk as he writes is ridiculous; or even if he did you would find fault with him as a pedant.
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Life is full of confusion. Confusion of love, passion, and romance. Confusion of family and friends. Confusion with life itself. What path we take, what turns we make. How we roll our dice.
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A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.
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All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
