Thomas Carlyle Quotes
Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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It is the spirit and not the form of law that keeps justice alive.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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I would love to do some theater.
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I don't believe that intelligence can be reduced to a number, frankly. But I can see how doing exactly that produces a useful sorting mechanism in our society in order to separate children into categories of promising and doomed. The tests seem arbitrary and without real scientific value and yet have lasting consequences.
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I think I am at my best when my hair is short. It's easier to take care of and more of who I am. Women are conditioned to think we need long hair.
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I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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For me it's about the music, and it always has been. Maybe for some other people it's more about money.
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I grew up in the sixties watching B.B. King and Tito Puente and Miles Davis and Coltrane, everybody, Marvin Gaye, Jimi. And at the same time, with my left eye I was watching Dolores Huerta, Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King, Malcolm X, Mother Teresa.
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Every man ultimately falls into the company with which he affiliates. And he is the strongest who draws men to himself, who creates the company; and this is through having a positive quality - courage and physical prowess.
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I've been in some bad TV shows and suffered through so much poor writing.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I have a small house so I borrow everything except art, that's what I love.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.
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All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.
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The Iraqi people consist of brotherly nationalities which have amalgamated in order to defend the existence of the eternal Iraqi Republic.This is why we always declare 'long live true Iraqi unity, for in it lies our strength.
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Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, altogether past calculation its powers of endurance.
