Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
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I used to be obsessed with race. I'm more obsessed with class now.
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Relationships ending are painful, and you can choose to carry that, or you can choose to reframe it.
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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I don't cry at books or movies. Ever. So imagine my shock and awe when I read 'The Time Traveler's Wife' for the second time, and I knew the ending, and I started to cry.
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I think the Democrats are catering to them, but, you know, in the entire history of the United States of America, there has never been a judge who has been refused a vote when there was a majority of Senators willing to vote for his confirmation, never in history.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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You know the greatest thing about working on 'Fallon?' I get so many anonymous gifts.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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I had so much fun doing Django, and I love westerns so much that after I taught myself how to make one, it's like, 'OK, now let me make another one now that I know what I'm doing.'
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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I don't do things that are illegal.
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Destiny is the invention of the cowardly, and the resigned.
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My only reason why I am not doing films is my children. My children need my attention, and it's my duty to give them my time. I have not given birth to them to just dump them and go off to work. I am not that kind of a person.
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I can't stand recipes that don't have background.
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I regularly encourage employees to break rules. I also say to employees that leadership starts with complaining and dissatisfaction. But it doesn't stop there. It comes from saying you're dissatisfied with something and then fixing it and making it better for everybody.
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Responsibility without power, the fate of the secretary through the ages.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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I have the appetite to do different roles that have different backdrops. I'd like to show that there's more to people sitting in cars for reasons other than being police officers.
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In Europe the parents are included as with children. All three generations are together. I'm thinking of Italy. You go out on a Sunday afternoon and the whole family is there.
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Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!
