Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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I think, living in the city, it's so easy to forget that you're attached to the earth.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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Fear is the dark room where the Devil develops his negatives.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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I am not a great fan of computers. I do watch videos and analyse which batsman is playing how. Batsmen can play different shots on different days. A batsman may not play cover drives well, but if he connects with two such shots, he starts playing the drive well on that day.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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I get bored pretty easily and I don't want to get locked down in one profession.
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I'm not going to choose between classical, Broadway or pop. I would love to stay where I am now - a mix of everything.
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A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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You have to just dive over the edge. You haven't got time to mess about.
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There are always three speeches, for every one you actually gave. The one you practiced, the one you gave, and the one you wish you gave.
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People sometimes wear shirts that are really boxy, and you can see them over the top of their trousers, which doesn't look right to me.
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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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To Americans, English manners are far more frightening than none at all.
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I will never give myself the luxury of thinking, 'I've made it.'
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Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests.
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I knew better, even as a child, than to even attempt to compete with Donald.
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I have nothing to speak of but my self-and what can I say but what I feel
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If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry.
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I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time.
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A man's perfection is his work.
