Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
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I did everything - I did newscasts, I did sports, I did dramas.
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Now, grosses are listed in the newspapers and on television like it's a sporting event. It's ridiculous, because when you're watching a movie, unless you're an investor in the movie or a stockholder in the studio, what do you care how much it's grossing or how much it cost or any of that stuff?
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America has to be not just an idea but a living, breathing thing.
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I can't live my life happily knowing you're with someone else. That would kill a part of me. What we have is rare. it's too beautiful to just throw it away.
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The crash of the whole solar and stellar systems could only kill you once.
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The only thing you find in the middle of the road are dead animals and dumb Americans.
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I'm very happy that being gay and married and having kids has become such an accepted piece of the fabric of America.
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I nodded absently as I made a note of the pub. The Rising Sun drinking establishment exists right on the fringes of the demi-monde – not being nearly as antique or mysterious as it pretends to be.
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I drove myself to the Emergency Room. That's a nice relaxing drive. "Noooo, after you. Merge-everybody merge."
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The arc of our history is toward more equality being expanded to more and more people.
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The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist.
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The idea of making access to safe abortions harder and more expensive and more difficult, having to travel across state lines - that puts women's health and lives in jeopardy, which is something I think no one wants.
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Years ago, when James Bulger was murdered, every newspaper front page was talking about evil. At that point, having suppressed it for years, I remembered when I was four or five, I tried to kill my own brother.
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I am a woman meant for a man, but I never found a man who could compete.
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Critical sobriety is out of the question so long as this master of terror-in-the-commonplace exerts his spell.
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Great men always pay deference to greater.
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It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
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Great men are the modelers, patterns, and in a wide sense creators, of whatsoever the general mass of men contrived to do and attain.
