Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless life, possibly a marriageless life, certainly a travelling life - I'm in awe of how much D.H. Lawrence managed to get around. But that's never been something I'm capable of doing.
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Big league defense is going to get outs most times.
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With my son, I tried not to be so judgmental and tried not to push him so hard. I didn't want him to feel that everything or that our love for him will be based on how much he has achieved.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational atmosphere, because, especially in national security and international affairs, it's male-dominated.
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You have plausible deniability, as they say in politics, as an author with movies. Because if the movie is terrible, you simply say they failed to catch the genius of the book.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Utahns deserve well thought out policy and plans.
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I am a Bolshevik.
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Saving Milly was a break from this effort because I felt that it was time to be part of something that could shed light on a disease everyone feels they know, when most know so little.
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No, it's a Bb. It looks wrong and it sounds wrong, but it's right.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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'Vanity' means worthlessness.
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I am strictly against remaking a movie.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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Try and fit in in a New Zealand playground with an Armagh accent - it doesn't work.
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I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.
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If you're in your early 20s and you're hanging out with a bunch of other people in their early 20s, nobody has a sense of the kinds of problems that real 'workers' run into every day. They're running into a completely different set of problems like 'What's the party going on right now that I should be going to?'
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The older you get, the things that you thought you wanted to do when you were younger, you're checking them off your list because you no longer want to them.
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I guess that I'm primarily thought of as a rocker, largely because of 'Frankenstein' being such a heavy song - you know, it was really hard rock, almost a precursor of heavy metal and just the image of the synthesizer. I happened to be the first guy to get the idea of putting a strap on the keyboard.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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A thought once awakened does not again slumber.
