Thomas Carlyle Quotes
For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.

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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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You can celebrate the female form in comfort. We left corsets behind in the dark ages, so why bring them back now?
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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People who matter are most aware that everyone else does too.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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When the movie starts playing on TV and DVD, that's when you really see what the movie is.
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I have a couture body.
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Incentives are not strategy, they are tactics. Defensive measures.
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Some people look at movies and think, 'Oh my gosh, that's so amazing.' But to me, I look at a politician or a scientist and think, 'They're creating the content of humanity.'
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I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse.
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When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.
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In men this blunder still you find,-All think their little set mankind.
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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Be not as one that hath ten thousand years to live; death is nigh at hand: while thou livest, while thou hast time, be good.
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Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing.
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What man in his right mind would conspire his own hurt? Men are beside themselves when they transgress against their convictions.
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The young tree of resistance in Palestine is blooming and blooms of faith and desire for freedom are flowering.
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There's something special about racing in real streets. The 'artificial' circuits have a certain sameness to them. But every race conducted on real streets has a character of its own - Barcelona, Monaco, and now Long Beach.
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I do not know what the heart of a bad man is like. But i do know what the heart of a good man is like. And it is terrible.
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We not only live among men, but there are airy hosts, blessed spectators, sympathetic lookers-on, that see and know and appreciate our thoughts and feelings and acts.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.