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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It's very hard to transgress; we have the furniture of transgression without the imagery and iconography to actually do it.
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One of the interesting things about having little musical knowledge is that you generate surprising results sometimes; you move to places you wouldn't if you knew better.
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When you're the single French person in the middle of 10 Tunisians, the majority will impose their way of life on the minority.
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The truth of the matter is that chess is not the game of life because life does not ever happen the way you strategize and plan.
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The way, like the cross, is spiritual: that is an inward submission of the soul to the will of God, as it is manifested by the light of Christ in the consciences of men, though it be contrary to their own inclinations.
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There is no life of a man, faithfully recorded, but is a heroic poem of its sort, rhymed or unrhymed.
