Thomas Carlyle Quotes
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.Thomas Carlyle
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
Tatiana Maslany -
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
Paloma Picasso -
I was initially very interested in public policy, but then after my masters at Harvard, I felt that it was important to get a better handle on the economics of it as well. I did my Ph.D. in macroeconomics, and my thesis - 'Why Is It That Some Countries Save And Others Not?' - was on savings.
Dambisa Moyo -
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Oscar Wilde -
I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
Eddie Murphy -
A society in which vocation and job are separated for most people gradually creates an economy that is often devoid of spirit, one that frequently fills our pocketbooks at the cost of emptying our souls.
Sam Keen
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I am a just man.
Fidel Castro -
The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
Harlan Ellison -
There was a bit of a comparison that Bret was making between Vince McMahon and my dad. He looked up to Vince as a dad and stuff, and it was a shame to see the whole thing end the way it did.
Owen Hart -
I do not like violence.
Abdurrahman Wahid -
Those who go along get along.
Sam Snead -
I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
Zane Grey
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Obama is a great man who's just beginning to understand the realities. And I'm not just saying that because he reads my books. I would have voted for him anyway.
E. L. Doctorow -
When I am in Egypt, I am along for the ride - I am a privileged outsider, but an outsider nonetheless.
G. Willow Wilson -
It would be so depressing to be a model and not get to say a word. There's no personality involved.
Olivia Wilde -
I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.
Rachael Harris -
My family are observant Muslims, but I've come to the faith through an intellectual conviction, and that's something that they've taught me. It's never been forced upon me. They've given me a very strong identity as an Australian Muslim.
Randa Abdel-Fattah -
The trouble with the profit system has always been that it was highly unprofitable to most people.
E. B. White
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An island is a fixed and finite piece of geography, and usually the whole place has been carved up and claimed.
Paul Theroux -
I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.
Bob Uecker -
The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.
Mark Haddon -
You must see with eyes unclouded by hate. See the good in that which is evil, and the evil in that which is good. Pledge yourself to neither side, but vow instead to preserve the balance that exists between the two.
Hayao Miyazaki -
When I was growing up, we used to play basketball in a park that was never shoveled when it snowed. The basketball rims were never fixed. And we understood then that there was a relationship between public policy and our quality of life.
DeForest Soaries -
He that will not work according to his faculty, let him perish according to his necessity: there is no law juster than that.
Thomas Carlyle