Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I would just die if some little girl saw me jump into bed with someone in the movies, and then she did it and got AIDS and died.
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Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.
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Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.
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There is a humanitarian impulse that one aspires to and there are days when one doesn't do it very well.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I am a writer because writing is the thing I do best.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
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You who speak languages, you are such liars.
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There is no truly global justice.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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Success is always temporary. When all is said and one, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
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You've got no chance of reaching the top if you're just playing for money.
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You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.
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I look at other people my age in this industry, other famous people my age, and they've just got famous friends. Which is cool, but I love being normal and just chilling at mine.
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And the terror itself is an example of the world's uncontrollability.
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If organized religion has become less relevant, it's not because churches have held fast to their creedal beliefs - it's because they've held fast to their conventional structures, programs, roles and routines.
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My driving abilities from Mexico have helped me get through Hollywood.
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Nationalism and racism, to take two examples, are the culturally nurtured outgrowths of simple tribalism.
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Men are hugely significant to me and to many of the women I interview.
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We in South Africa had a relatively peaceful transition. If our madness could end as it did, it must be possible to do the same everywhere else in the world. If peace could come to South Africa, surely it can come to the Holy Land.
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I have lived all my life as part of an ethnic conflict.
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Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
