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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Time has shown that Paradise is not cheap, and neither is Hell unnecessary.
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No man ever listened himself out of a job.
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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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One can imagine having a procedural rule that anything ambiguous should be treated as the Taj Mahal unless we see that it is labelled 'fog'...The motorist replies: 'What sort of rule is this? Surely the best guarantee I can have that the fog is fog is if I fail to see the sign saying 'fog' because of the fog.'
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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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‘If one approaches a problem with order and method there should be no difficulty in solving it - none whatever,’ said Pirot severely.
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I had to do something for the country.
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Glamour is something you can't bear to be without once you're used to it.
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Customers want new functionality, but they don't want the traditional complexity that has marred products in the past.
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One man doesn't believe in god at all, while the other believes in him so thoroughly that he prays as he murders men!
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
