Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.
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When I was 5 and playing against 11-year-olds, who were bigger, stronger, faster, I just had to figure out a way to play with them.
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I think that everything starts to go to hell when you start smelling your own farts and complimenting yourself on how great they smell. We're not going to turn into fart-smellers.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I got a big mouth.
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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Usually, someone who's in a show gets me a ticket. I feel cornered. I can't walk out if I don't like it.
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Most single women have been in that situation where there is a silent guy in your group. You don't see him as boyfriend material. He's just there, but you know all the same people.
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The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.
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If you take as your pattern the wings of feathered birds, these are more powerful in structure of bone and sinew because they are penetrable, that is to say the feathers are separated from one another and the air passes through them. But the bat is aided by its membrane, which binds the whole together and is not penetrated by the air.
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The fundamental premise of liberalism is the moral incapacity of the American people.
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In Puritan thinking, the Christian life was a heroic venture, requiring a full quota of energy.
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I think in 'No Burden' there was a lot of positivity on the record.
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I think you always win in storytelling when you let the best creative ideas guide you.
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If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.
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Yes, I play computer games. I think you've got to embrace the latest technology. For someone to dismiss games as not important would be the same as saying the Internet is not important.
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The first album I bought, I didn't even buy it. My grandma got Mike Jones and Bow Wow's 'Wanted' a little later. Matter of fact Ying Yang Twins' 'U.S.A. Still United' was the first album, but Mike Jones was the first album I really love.
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Dogs...do not ruin their sleep worrying about how to keep the objects they have, and to obtain the objects they have not. There is nothing of value they have to bequeath except their love and their faith.
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He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of virtuous living.
