William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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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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We all wish we could be in more than one place at the same time. People with families feel guilty all the time-if we spend too much time with our family, we feel we're not working hard enough.
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Some indeed have tears naturally, when the higher motion of the soul makes itself felt in the lower, or because God our Lord, seeing that it would be good for them, allows them to melt into tears. But this does not mean that they have greater charity or that they are more effective than others who enjoy no tears.
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Nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman - or the want of it in the man.
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I have no wish for a second husband. I had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master.
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Humor is the mistress of tears.
