Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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If you're not kind, then you won't be attractive to me personally because that spirit shines through and makes people attractive.
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You don't need a machine to make pasta: a rolling pin and a fast hand can create a smooth, if thick, sheet.
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I maintain music is not here to make us forget about life. It's also here to teach us about life: the fact that everything starts and ends, the fact that every sound is in danger of disappearing, the fact that everything is connected - the fact that we live and we die.
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The entirety of 'Bellocq's Ophelia' was a project, and I was interested in doing research and looking at photographs and writing about them, imagining this woman Ophelia and what her life was like and the kinds of things she thought about.
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I think that when I was child, acting was mostly just a hobby for me. It was something that my parents encouraged me to think of the way that my brothers thought of their cross-country classes, or my little sister to dance classes and art classes, and it was something like that for me.
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I worked hard in gymnastics since the time I was six years old until I retired at 23 years of age.
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I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
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Don't we all know why nerds do what they do? To get money, which leads to popularity, which leads to girls.
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There is nothing cooler than having lines like, 'Batman, the fate of the world is upon us.' Who gets to say that? And who gets to say that in a deep, earnest, amazingly sexy way?
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The view of Earth is spectacular.
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A true knowledge of ourselves is knowledge of our power.
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What I wish more than anything is that I could start getting press about my work as an actor. That is what I do. I'm not a criminal.
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A well balanced, inclusive approach, according to certain standards and ideals, is essential for the proper governance of any country.
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I hope some compromise will be entered into between the two parties, slavery & antislavery, which will have the effect of allaying violent passions on both sides.
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I love a challenge, and I love challenging people's preconceptions.
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There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings.
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Ultimately, I'd love to be able to work in film.
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I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
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It is known, to the force of a single pound weight, what the engine will do; but, not all the calculators of the National Debt can tell me the capacity for good or evil, for love or hatred, for patriotism or discontent, for the decomposition of virtue into vice, or the reverse.
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A leader is someone who helps improve the lives of other people or improve the system they live under.
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Art saved me; it got me through my depression and self-loathing, back to a place of innocence.
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Evil, once manfully fronted, ceases to be evil; there is generous battle-hope in place of dead, passive misery; the evil itself has become a kind of good.
