Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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It's extraordinary what children put up with. I happened to see two of my uncles put my father up against the wall of my grandmother's house and knock his teeth out, because he'd been unpleasant to my mother. The next day I went upstairs and found my father making a rather half-hearted attempt to gas himself.
Jack Straw -
The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.
Harold Coffin -
When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
It's the 21st century. It's healthier for us, better for the environment and certainly kinder to be a vegetarian.
Ingrid Newkirk -
My parents were both entrepreneurs.
Caprice Bourret -
That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
V. S. Naipaul
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The difficulty, the ordeal, is to start.
Zane Grey -
A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.
Ovid -
Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
Zara Phillips -
I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
Kate Winslet -
It's a hard job. It means giving up some things, but on the other hand they keep saying you can have it all. You can't really have it all so easy. You can do a little of this and little of that.
Garry Marshall -
Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow
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People would pay money to work at CNN.
Larry King -
The food in south India is the food that I really love because it reminds me of home.
Aarti Sequeira -
You can't just get in a boat with someone and be great straight away. It takes a lot of time to get used to each other. You need to learn how the other person reacts to certain situations.
Hannah Mills -
There's a truth about public service that is often unspoken and rarely understood - that the role of our elected officials is about much more than balancing budgets and ensuring the delivery of essential services.
J. B. Pritzker -
The quality of instruction is very high at the Silverlake Conservatory of Music. It's not about being a rock star. It's about the fundamentals of music, theory and technique on a particular instrument, and playing in an ensemble or private setting.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I've always been sort of a closet sci-fi geek.
Rachel Cohn
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When you start talking about sacrifices, pretty soon people start feeling like chumps.
Naomi Klein -
It's a very complicated issue about when is a fact not a fact in the context of opinions.
Daniel Okrent -
When you write a play, you work out like a musician on a piece of music. You find all the rhythms and the melody and the harmonies and take them as they come.
Sam Shepard -
I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
Cameron Dallas -
All work, even cotton-spinning, is noble; work is alone noble.
Thomas Carlyle