Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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To live in New York is to see the world as it is to come.
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I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
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When I was little, I got into a little accident, and it gave me congenital glaucoma in both of my eyes.
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I think, especially living in L.A., it's very easy to get wrapped up in weekend announcements and the trades and the whole social life of the city, and to get divorced from what actually matters.
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Not knowing the thing that's chasing you is a lot scarier than seeing it right in front of you.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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Our country is in deep trouble. To talk and re-litigate in 1998, or even what Mitt Romney said or didn't say in 1994 or 2002, I don't think most people really care.
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I don't like Botox. It makes a very strange forehead.
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Lawmakers misrepresent the facts when they call the manufacturing deduction known as Section 199 - passed by Congress in 2004 to spur domestic job growth - a 'subsidy' for oil and gas firms. The truth is that all U.S. manufacturers, from software producers to filmmakers and coffee roasters, are eligible for this deduction.
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Every experiment, by multitudes or by individuals, that has a sensual and selfish aim, will fail.
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During the season, I dodge the media, kind of. It's not that I'm trying to avoid them, but I know if they get a hold of me, there's going to be, like, 10 people around me, and I'm going to have to answer question after question, where in that time, after practice, I need to be taking care of my body and recovering.
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When I first came out, I was a film student, and my mom sewed clothes. I was already doing a million things then, whatever it took to survive. If I had to braid someone's hair to get one pound for my lunch money, that's what I did.
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I don't really care what other people see me as. I seriously don't. I've always worried about what my opinion of myself is. And I've always thought that it carries most weight. So I don't care what other people's opinion of me is or how they view whatever I've said or done.
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My best advice is to not start in PowerPoint. Presentation tools force you to think through information linearly, and you really need to start by thinking of the whole instead of the individual lines.
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Well, I was interested in playing the piano from as early as I can remember.
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Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.
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Verum ubi pro labore desidia, pro continentia et aequitate libido atque superbia invasere, fortuna simul cum moribus immutatur. Ita imperium semper ad optimum quemque a minus bono transfertur. (II)
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Nam idem velle atque idem nolle, ea demum firma amicitia est.
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Singing isn't always about being on key; it's about emotionality.
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I have more money now than I know what to do with.
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Cinderella girl - you're in my mind A girl like you - is so hard to find Cinderella girl - I'll miss you so Oh I'll never let you go, oh no.
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I did my dissertation on the idea of femininity and women's writing, so I spent eight months reading about how women are portrayed in the media in terms of images and tone of voice and what words are used.
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Be prepared to fall out of love with your words. I'm still too verbose at times.
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Silence is more eloquent than words.
