Thomas Carlyle Quotes
The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
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But... watching Steven Barnes taught me to treat my life like an art form.
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I love being a part of country music. I love going out and... doing things for the first time for country music. I always enjoy that.
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I've got this old-school workout - push-ups, sit-ups, tricep dips. And it worked. Anybody can do this at home.
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The taps with the bat on the spikes are one for my grandmother, one for my grandfather, one for my little sister. Then the one on the helmet is showing faith in God that I can do it.
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New York City is my favorite city in the world.
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The CIA now assesses that four nations - Iraq, North Korea, Russia and, to the surprise of some specialists, France - have undeclared samples of the smallpox virus.
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Today, only 2 percent of the people know the name of someone serving in uniform. That means 2 percent of your listeners can actually conjure up the image of someone wearing the uniform of the military of the United States.
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Computer animation is one way to liberate people from their circumstantial gravity, and it is one way to give them mental freedom.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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I try to show ugliness, but with compassion for the people who commit ugly acts.
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I was captain in Atletico at 19, playing in the same team as Demetrio Albertini, who won three Champions Leagues, and Sergi Barjuan from Barcelona, who had won everything, and they were 32, 33. I was a kid as captain, so I wasn't the real captain, just a kid learning from them.
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The media is controlled.
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The rules are all in a sixty-four-page pamphlet by Aristotle called 'Poetics.' It was written almost three thousand years ago, but I promise you, if something is wrong with what you're writing, you've probably broken one of Aristotle's rules.
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My family, in a way, gives me a reference as to who I am as an individual, and my work gives me a reference as to who I am as a Homo sapiens. I think that's a very perfect match, in my view.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.
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I don't go to the sale rack. But I wouldn't say I am decadent in my spending. I am careful.
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As soon as I have got flying to perfection, I have got a scheme about a steam engine.
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I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
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There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, "Ah, I should have done that better."
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Most people don’t want to fight, especially when evenly matched. A mob will tear an individual to pieces and a man with a gun and a noble cause is happy to kill ever so many women and children, but risking a fair fight—not so easy. That’s why you see those pissed young men doing the dance of “don’t hold me back” while desperately hoping someone likes them enough to hold them back.
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The graceful minuet-dance of fancy must give place to the toilsome, thorny pilgrimage of understanding. On the transition from the age of romance to that of science.
