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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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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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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Do you remember campaigns like 'Keep America beautiful'? What about 'Buckle up'? I believe we need an approach like this to attack obesity. Let's be a good industry that does 100% of what it possibly can - not grudgingly, but willingly.
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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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To the poet fated to be a poet, self-expression is as natural and as involuntary as breathing is to us ordinary mortals.
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It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.
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My grandad's a gospel singer, and his children were singers, too. But I don't believe in God in the same way... not religion; it breaks us up too much. The same with musical styles - it breaks people up. I believe they are all one thing - why not put them together?
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It's almost impossible to get a movie all together when there are two main cast members, let alone an ensemble cast with everyone's schedules. It's crazy if it works out.
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True friends, like ivy and the wall Both stand together, and together fall.
