Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Nowadays, there are seven music directors in one film. I had never heard of such a thing before. If one of our old music directors was told to share a score with others, he would have left the assignment.
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I cannot go to Montreal without going to Beauty's, my favorite place for breakfast, where I have the Mish-Mash omelet with hot dogs, salami, eggs, green peppers, and onions, and the best banana bread in the world. It's legendary!
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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Measure your wealth by what you'd have left if you lost all your money.
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In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
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Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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Your Majesty, I took the liberty because I was so desirous of visiting alone with you for a few minutes before the rest of the other peasants arrived.
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I have an outdoor kitchen at home in Georgia, and I try to never eat inside.
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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I've done a lot of sci-fi, so I was a little hesitant because you get pigeonholed into that genre and world. But at the same time, I love sci-fi because the women are so strong and independent and smart.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
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This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
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I grew up being into sports and I wasn't trained to move my body in the right way for dancing. I'm the last one to get any moves correct. In rehearsals it's always, 'OK, one more take for Zac.'
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The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to certainty; the new therefore always appears in the guise of a miracle.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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Self-preservation is an important thing to me.
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Though I continue to tell stories about Iraq, I sometimes fear this makes me a fraud. I feel guilty about the sorrow I feel because I know it is manufactured, and I feel guilty about the sorrow I do not feel because it is owed, it is the barest beginnings of what is owed to the fallen.
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Obamacare does much more than provide coverage to the previously uninsured - it improves the quality of coverage for all of us. Critical cancer and other health screenings are free. Women and people with disabilities or chronic conditions are no longer charged more - or priced out of the market altogether.
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Too much virtue can be criminal.
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When I was a kid I did impressions and funny voices a lot. When I was telling a story I would use the voices to make it more entertaining.
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Today we have 1 billion users on the Net. By 2010 we will have maybe 2 billion.
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The great soul of this world is just.
