William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
Quotes to Explore
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You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
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I think it is more a cautiousness that protects me from enthusiasm about things. I tend not to get excited. People perceive it as a scowl, which is fair enough.
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In the future, I want to have super-fights.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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When you're writing a novel - at least the way I write is I work from what I would call 'emotional atmosphere,' ambiance to ambiance.
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I get a choice every time I have to open my mouth: that it can be with civility and dignity and grace - or not.
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I enjoy my life, I love track, I'm set for life financially.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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The majority of the time, they take air out of the football. I think that, for me, is a disadvantage.
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
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Broader social concerns within Muslim communities, such as discrimination, integration or socio-economic disadvantages, should be treated distinctively and not as part of counterterrorism agenda, which has been counter-productive.
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Democratic accountability means that governments must be popularly accepted, with citizens empowered to replace corrupt or incompetent rulers.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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You don't want people rooting for anything other than the team that they love and the players that they think the world of to win. We don't want there to be another agenda.
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I want to be able to do work where I think it's very forward, but I also want it to exist in a big way and have an effect on a lot of people.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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French existentialism is an unhelpful philosophy in which to couch modern feminism: born from the ravages of the Second World War, it is a cynical, individualistic school of thought that posits the self and personal choice as the measure of life's entire meaning.
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I'm a total people pleaser.
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I like my feet. I have a tattoo on my foot with my last name. They're dancer feet. They're pretty. My toes are proportioned nicely. And they're strong - I can pinch people with my toes.
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Poets, for example, are generally considered starry-eyed and sensitive, but only by those who have never encountered one.
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Normally, I'd believe that the saying 'There's no small parts, only small actors' is a load of crock because, more often than not, actors relegated to the small-part category stay in 'Who was that guy from that thing' purgatory - however, '90s sitcom 'Friends' proved that the saying is true.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
