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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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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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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I had always been a fatalist about my career. What was to be was to be.
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I could actually be somebody that, if you showed me new gun-control legislation could help solve this problem, I might actually be able to support something like that.
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On the road to equality there is no better place for blacks to detour around American values than in forgoing its example in the treatment of its women and the organization of its family.
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Without thinking or reflecting, we plunge into war, contract heavy debts, increase vastly the patronage of the Executive, and indulge in every species of extravagance, without thinking that we expose our liberty to hazard. It is a great and fatal mistake.
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Illic, precor, optime ductor,famulam tibi praecipe mentem,genitali in sede sacrariquam liquerat exsul et errans.
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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.
