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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There is no greater nobility than offering one’s life to the nation and, Mr. President, your father offered his life so that this nation might be free.
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The act of writing... is the act of trying to understand why my opinion is what it is. And ultimately, I think that's the same experience the reader has when they pick up one of my books.
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You think, "Aw man, I would never want somebody else's poop on my hand," but when it's your child, "Oh, it's not that bad, I'll just wash it off."
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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!
