Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.Thomas Carlyle
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For my film 'Fashion,' like an investigative journalist, I went about knowing the people, the models, the fashion designers. Similarly with the corporate world.
Madhur Bhandarkar -
Speech happens to not be his language.
Madame de Stael -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells -
I'm to a point now where you want to play for your fans and all that, but I'm playing for the guys in that huddle. I'm playing for the guys in that locker room.
Tarvaris Jackson -
As the numbers of native-born Europeans begin to fall, with their anemic fertility rates, will the aging Europeans become more magnanimous toward destitute newcomers who do not speak the national language or assimilate into the national culture but consume its benefits?
Pat Buchanan -
There is an urgent need for the Central government to take the lead in ensuring health and nutrition service delivery.
Kapil Sibal
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The problem is that the economy isn't growing fast enough to accommodate the level of spending produced through the democratic process.
Jack Kemp -
No one in my family has been observant for generations, but we all identify with being Jewish.
Adam Mansbach -
Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies. Nobody that matters, that is.
Edna St. Vincent Millay -
Other than marriage, she doesn't control me and I don't control her.
Gavyn Davies -
People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
Adam Levine Maroon 5 -
When I feel really insecure, or I'm in a social situation where I'm nervous about how I come off, or I'm trying to control the situation too much, I literally just try and use the same muscles that I had to use on stage - just paying attention to the other person and trusting yourself to respond as emotionally honestly as possible.
Tavi Gevinson
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I love being pushed out of my comfort zone.
Karen Traviss -
The only thing I've settled in my mind is that I want to forgive, and forgiveness comes with forgetting.
Ingrid Betancourt -
We are Bayern Munich and English teams always have trouble as soon as they leave the island.
Oliver Kahn -
My father took one of the toughest jobs in the government because he cared about his nation more than himself. His courage and conviction have always driven me to want to make a difference.
Pardis Sabeti -
I don't really like being with people my own age for long periods, because all we talk about is our decrepitude, how the world is changing for the worse even though it isn't.
Ian Mckellen -
I'm not materialistic. I believe in presents from the heart, like a drawing that a child does.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
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For my convalescence, I had to exercise my voice only with vowels. It is a medical rule after a long loss of voice.
Nana Mouskouri -
When I say, 'I can't stay long, I'm in-between meals,' that plays differently on the radio than it does in person. So I have to pick material that works because the words are funny, not just because of the images.
Louie Anderson -
A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.
Virginia Woolf -
Marcus Garvey was one of the first advocates of Black Power, and is still today the greatest spokesman ever to have been produced by the movement of Black Consciousness...He spoke to all Africans on the earth, whether they lived in Africa, South America, the West Indies or North America, and he made Blacks aware of their strength when united.
Walter Rodney -
I tend to have an endless number of ideas for writing projects. I don't necessarily say that as a good thing. Maybe it's a good thing, but I have ideas for all kinds of projects: contemporary novels, graphic novels, anything that happens to go through my mind.
Matthew Pearl -
The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.
Thomas Carlyle