William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
Quotes to Explore
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This is what we get paid to do, is to bring it every week, and I hope the guys would say I bring it every week. I mean, I love this game, and I bring energy.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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Rahm Emanuel is, we are almost certain, a vampire.
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When I'm not on a crazy schedule, I'll try to do yoga or the gym once or twice a week.
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I am not fearless. I get scared plenty. But I have also learned how to channel that emotion to sharpen me.
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There is no reason why any public school district in our state should be on a four-day school week. If anything, we should be extending the school year.
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I have never planned to have babies by a certain age.
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I don't do really well in cities, which is crazy given that we're flying in and out of these major cities every week.
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Love isn't an emotion or an instinct - it's an art.
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Combine that with the fact that we only had one week to get everything taken care of and to get to know one another, whereas most shows get two weeks. It looked like we would never have a chance.
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There is some group of Americans who are really, really curious to understand how we ended up at this point, where every week it seems like you can turn on your TV and see some sort of abuse being heaped on black people.
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I bake a chocolate cake from scratch every week.
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I was christened Edward. My sister gave me the name Bear when I was a week old and it has stuck.
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If I don't play well, then it's not the end of the world, because we all learn in tennis that there's always next week.
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I like to work for four or five hours a day. I aim for seven days a week.
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I was really into dancing, taking six classes a week, and my real dream was to be in a Broadway show.
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Companies are always being bought and sold. The markets are always moving; you have to be on top of your position. And in the U.S., the market is never closed for more than three days. The only time the market was ever closed was 9/11. I think it may have been closed the whole week.
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I have seven disciplines to train for, and so I try to complete them all every week.
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No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.
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It's not in the draftsmanship, it's in the man. Like I say, a tool is dead. A brush is a dead object. It's in the man. If you want to do it, you do it.
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I am convinced that those who get themselves involved in the machinery of power politics, even for the purpose of destroying it, are bound to fail in their purpose. To destroy it we have to stay out of it. If we want to cut down a tree, it is of no use to climb into its branches. The desire to keep contact with something, even to destroy it, is a subtle and insidious illusion.
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I struggle between what I know is right in my own mind, and some warped truthfulness as seen through other people's eyes who have no heart, and can't see the difference anyway.
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At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.
