Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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My memory of my home was that it was very happy, and that there was more fun and life there than there was anywhere else.
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If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule.
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The show I'm obsessed with watching is 'Say Yes to the Dress!' Because I love the whole makeover idea, and I'm a sap for love, of course.
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I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
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I received a D.Sc. from the University of London in 1992.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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Conviction without experience makes for harshness.
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When I took over as president, I studied the Constitution, and the more I studied it, the more I realised that it does not prevent the president of India from giving the nation a vision. So when I went and presented this vision in Parliament and in legislative assemblies; everyone welcomed it, irrespective of party affiliations.
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Once you realize just the sort of glut of books that exists out there, it does become incumbent on you not to add to it unless you have a damn good reason.
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You can cage the singer but not the song.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.
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We tried to make a movie that had sex and violence because we like sex and violence.
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I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.
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In Australia, we've always been a country that runs the ball right up the middle on the fifth tackle. We've never seen a challenge we didn't like, and we've certainly never run from one.
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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I don't follow any of what the pop world is doing. Sometimes I feel like that's a weakness, actually, that I'm too in my own bubble. But I'm really just interested in the inner journey. And pop is all about the exterior world, the material.
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All the food that is put into the stomach that the system cannot derive benefit from, is a burden to nature in her work.
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I still work hard to know my business. I'm continuously looking for ways to improve all my companies, and I'm always selling. Always.
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When you get old and play every day like I did, it's hard. Hard on your body. You start to get sore. You gain weight. But that makes me work harder, be stronger in my mind, and show I can still play.
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Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
