William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy.
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I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.
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By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
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I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.
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You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
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The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team.
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I never said half the things I said.
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In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
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When you are a media celebrity, every word you speak is dissected, as are those you choose not to speak.
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One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.
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Martin Scorsese, everything he does, I've got to see. And Jack Nicholson, I've got to see what he does.
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All you have to do is to dream big and try to fulfil it.
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The more you work with anyone, the more comfortable and safe you feel. The more you have an understanding.
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I grew up playing in youth orchestras, so they were my most treasured memories, so to be in front of an orchestra playing my own material would be incredible.
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The human race is governed by its imagination.
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Pike, three inches long, perfectPike in all parts, green tigering the gold.Killers from the egg: the malevolent aged grin.
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This is your country as well as anybody else's country. This country is founded upon the principle of equality. He that is meritorious and virtuous, intellectual and well informed, must stand highest, without regard to color.
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There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.
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Talent is a pursued interest. In other words, anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.
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When capitalists are thwarted, deflected, or dispossessed, the generals and politicians,... and socialist intellectuals, are always amazed at how quickly the great physical means of production - the contested tokens of wealth and resources of nature - dissolve into so much scrap, ruined concrete, snarled wire, and wilderness.
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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
