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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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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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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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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Building product is not about having a large team to manage. It is about having a small team with the right people on it.
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I don't have family in this business. I had two parents that loved me, that worked 24-7, and this is what instilled hard work in me. So you hear the stories about my upbringing, my religion.
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If the public understands the central bank's views on the economy and monetary policy, then households and businesses will take those views into account in making their spending and investment plans; policy will be more effective as a result.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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My road to publishing actually came through a colleague who connected me to my agent, and the faculty at Cornell was very supportive.
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'In all this world there is nothing so beautiful as a happy child,' says good old Santa Claus; and if he had his way the children would all be beautiful, for all would be happy.
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I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.
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Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.
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For every one hundred men who can stand adversity there is only one who can withstand prosperity.
