William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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A weightlifter should be able to do everything and borrow things from other sports to beat competitors.
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Whether you call my heart affectionate, or you call it womanish: I confess, that to my misfortune, it is soft.
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The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
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Science is Christian, not when it condemns itself to the letter of things, but when, in the infinitely little, it discovers as many mysteries and as much depth and power as in the infinitely great.
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There is no true gracefulness which is not epitomized goodness.
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My youngest sister belonged to a group called the Twelve Tribes for many years. She recently left, with her husband and four children. Talking to her about her experiences in the group is fascinating, moving, and enlightening.
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I always have to be writing.
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I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
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There's a high head count on 'Homeland.'
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My dad is often horrified by what I've spent my money on.
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You can't take good health for granted.
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Poor people have more fun than rich people, they say; and I notice it's the rich people who keep saying it.
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I have a strong desire to communicate what I feel about the world. That's exciting to me.
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'Lisa' was a film that I am really proud of and is probably hopefully going to be remade.
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I don't think I can speak of the achievements of Indian cinema because it's so large next to me. It's not stopping. It's ever-growing. We are going towards the right direction. We are evolving as a filmmaking industry as actors, directors, producers, singers, musicians. Everybody just pushing the boundaries.
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I would like to be known for honest, relatable writing and stories that that are real. There's just this shift I think is happening in a lot of society right now where being your most real self, however embarrassing or vulnerable or weird that is, is the coolest. I feel like that's what Lena Dunham's about and Amy Schumer's about.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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You can find Chobani in every major supermarket, in club stores, convenience stores and airports. But we're not everywhere yet. We have been struggling with keeping up with demand.
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She once complained that her stories were like 'birds bred in cages,' but that concentrated atmosphere, that claustrophobic hothouse of emotion, was her talent. Her stories were little masterpieces of compression: she succinctly contained whole lifetimes in a few pages, every moment loaded with as much as it could bear.
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Humor is the mistress of tears.
