William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
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Fitzgerald was a modernist.
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The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.
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If there's anyone in my lifetime who deserves honor it is Billy Graham. I think he is the most significant figure since the apostles.
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Never hire someone who knows less than you do about what he's hired to do.
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I came to London. It had become the center of my world and I had worked hard to come to it. And I was lost.
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There are times, especially when I was just getting into PC gaming, where I spent way less time playing than obsessing about the quality of the play.
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Even though I have Twitter, I only use it to say, 'Oh, this is coming out.' I would never voice anything about me, really.
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One day, though, I was asked if I'd like to go to the University of Florida and become a Gator.
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Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.
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I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.
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I think I'd be a great mom, honestly. I don't think I'll have any problem giving them all the love in the world. Discipline will be the hard part.
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I was about to give up acting when I got the call about being short-listed for 'Dangal.'
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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You cannot climb the ladder of success dressed in the costume of failure.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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My cousin once told me, 'You're tall, you're handsome - and you're gonna have to apologize for it the rest of your life.' He imparted that information to me.
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I believe the United States is very sick financially and might not survive another four years of Obama-style leadership.
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Your real boss is the one who walks around under your hat.
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I signaled to my host to try to have the philosophers expound on some aspect of their knowledge. As a good friend he immediately rose to the occasion. I won't go into the conversation that accompanied his request, and the difference between the comic and the serious was too slight to translate.
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κόσμον μὲν ἀνδρὸς οὔτιν᾽ ἂν τρέσαιμ᾽ ἐγώ,οὐδ᾽ ἑλκοποιὰ γίγνεται τὰ σήματαλόφοι δὲ κώδων τ᾽ οὐ δάκνουσ᾽ ἄνευ δορός.
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Stay quiet and the noisy surface dialogues will cease.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a rose to sing.
