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've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.
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I used to be the hippest of them all. I used to know everything about everything. I used to read about everything that was going on, and I knew everybody's name and anybody in pop culture. Anything that was written about me, I would read.
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Undeniably, we were on God's side in World War II and the Cold War. But were we ourselves without sin in those just struggles?
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Humor is the mistress of tears.
