Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
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The nations of Africa, as is true of every continent of the world, from time to time dispute among themselves. These quarrels must be confined to this continent and quarantined from the contamination of non-African interference.
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I got addicted to Tetris, playing it in my basement, I was missing all these airplane flights over it. After the fourth one that I missed, I realized I needed to get rid of this thing - so ever since then, I don't play video games any more.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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My advice to anyone would be to focus on your current job and be the best at it. The rest will take care of itself.
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Eazy-E is going to remain Eazy-E. But I will not portray Compton as a bad city.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.
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I fell into playwriting accidentally, took some classes in it, and also took creative writing classes, but I really didn't expect it to be a career because I didn't believe there was a way to make money as a playwright without being lucky and I didn't feel particularly lucky.
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My soul is dark with stormy riot: directly traced over to diet.
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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As a species, we can at times be dimwitted and cruel. But we're also capable of learning.
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People say, 'Do you ever miss being a normal teenager?'
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Because many of us have been in game shows for some time, there's always someone around who can share a story of Johnny O or Jay Stewart that I never heard.
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Christlike communications are expressed in tones of love rather than loudness. They are intended to be helpful rather than hurtful. They tend to bind us together rather than to drive us apart. They tend to build rather than to belittle.
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There are no shortcuts to true excellence.
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There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.
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I feel that the music that I do is somewhat of a lost art and it's not as popular as dance or pop music and people are not as interested in it. But it's something that I believe in and I feel that it's needed, so that's why I do it and I will keep doing it until everybody hears it and gets it.
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School was more than academics; an education prepared you for the humdrum of real life: working with others, tempering one's personality to assimilate with the group but without losing your individual identity, understading the factors of logic, reasoning, and debate. For a person - vampire or human - to succeed in the world, unlocking the mysteries of the universe was insufficient. One would also need to grasp the mysteries of human nature.
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It takes a long time to get good at something, so it's important to begin as early as possible so that we can improve and begin to see the compounding benefits of the work over time.
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The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.
