Thomas Carlyle Quotes
May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
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I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
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Dancing is the last sport with no sponsor.
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Hits and flops are overrated.
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Of course the success of A Boy's Own Story took me utterly off guard.
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You need the audience to go on the ride with you. You can't just isolate them.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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To mistrust science and deny the validity of scientific method is to resign your job as a human. You'd better go look for work as a plant or wild animal.
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Look what Disney's done to their animation department. There wasn't an animator in charge of their animation unit!
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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We the voice of the young world. We the voice of the people.
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I invested all my money in debt.
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The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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Most of the people at my headline shows are in their 20s, but it varies a ton: like, I've had a six-year-old hug my leg after the show and a 60-year-old shake my hand. It's cool to see people connecting with the music across different generations.
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I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the first in the country.
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To achieve vital harmony in a picture it must be constructed out of parts in themselves incomplete, brought into harmony only at the last stroke.
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When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.
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How hard a thing is life to the lowly, and yet how human and real!
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I was studying theater management, business stuff. About that time, I realized I really didn't like that, and it threw me into a panic attack a little bit. I was under the assumption that the first job you get out of college is the job you have for the rest of your life.
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Experience yourself in silence.
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May blessings be upon the head of Cadmus, the Phoenicians, or whoever it was that invented books.
