William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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One often learns more from ten days of agony than from ten years of contentment.
Harold Coffin
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The correctness and quality of what you write do not matter; the act of writing does.
Natalie Goldberg
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All tastes have the quality of being in some way artificial and invented. The secret of life is to have enough detachment from your tastes and your values to see that they are a little bit absurd.
Adam Gopnik
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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'
Dalai Lama
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When you're heartbroken, you're at your most creative - you have to channel all your energies into something else to not think about it. Contentment is a creativity killer, but don't worry - I'm very capable of making myself discontented.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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There is one quality which one must possess to win, and that is definiteness of purpose, the knowledge of what one wants, and a burning desire to possess it.
Napoleon Hill
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I think one of the reasons 'Gremlins' lasts and some other films don't is because I don't think the movie has a whole lot of dated things - sure, the cars, my hair, and few things here and there that date the movie - but it takes place in a sort of everytown, in a sorta non-specific time, and that gives the movie a timeless quality.
Zach Galligan
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When you work on a text of a lesser quality, as the interpreter or the delivery person, you are obliged to try to fill it out as you see so many people do in lesser work.
Mandy Patinkin
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My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.
Natasha Henstridge
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There is, indeed, no single quality of the cat that man could not emulate to his advantage.
Carl Van Vechten
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Vince Lombardi
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As long as I've known music, Bose has been the company to listen to. They're a lot of fun to work with, but also being able to associate yourself with such a high-quality product is great.
J. J. Watt
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With Tiger Woods, you know everyone is watching. But I think interest in women's golf is getting better too.
Yani Tseng
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We part with tender relations stretching far behind us, that never can be exactly renewed, and with others dawning - yet before us.
Charles Dickens
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We're constantly on the road, and we all love to eat, so we try to find balance. We never like to deprive ourselves, but we do try to eat clean as much as possible and sneak in workouts wherever we can so we feel energized and don't feel bad when we eat that extra handful of Flaming Hot Cheetos!
Dinah Jane
Fifth Harmony
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Depending on the time I get, I do my share of social networking, listen to music, or play a video game. I love watching movies in theatres.
Allu Arjun
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Take the time and do some small thing that will be noticed and remembered. Choose your objects carefully, and buy only what you love.
Charlotte Moss
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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
William Makepeace Thackeray
