William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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Hollywood's got its own particular environment.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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In a lot of ways, I envy someone like Omar Sharif who lived in a hotel for decades.
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Promotions can be seen in two ways - either you hate them, and they're a burden, and you are getting through with it, or you can enjoy them. I decided early on that I was going to enjoy them. I did 43 interviews in a day for 'Kahaani.'
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I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
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I have a company called Earl Campbell Foods. I got into the meat business in 1991.
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I've fondly dreamed of becoming the face of an important brand since I was a child, in the same way that others dream of becoming an astronaut. I dreamed of this as I first and foremost dreamed of becoming an actor and would look up at these huge posters of celebrities while driving along motorways or crossing under bridges.
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To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
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Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.
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You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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My music confuses people because they think I will sound a certain way because I look a certain way with the dreads.
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It's something that I do every year - every Ramadan to be exact - taking an 18-hour flight back home to Malaysia from Los Angeles. I'm born and raised in Malaysia, and Ramadan and Eid has always been my favorite time of the year.
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As far as how much you listen to the audience, you listen to them when they really hate something.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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You have to find ways to relate to the characters you get to play. Put it in terms and in a context that speaks to you.
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I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.
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Years and years ago, when everyone knew that Pierce was going to be doing the job, they started selecting new people. I had this bizarre thing when I hadn't done many movies, and of going on for an interview.
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What you have is two men seeking the White House; they're both products of prominent New England families. They both went to private boarding schools. They both went to a prestigious university.
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Music is a good way to channel your fragile, vulnerable, needy side, but it's also something to rejoice in.
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It is not our criminal actions that require courage to confess, but those which are ridiculous and foolish.
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Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.
