William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I am a genre lover - everything from spaghetti western to samurai movie.
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I'm a capitalist but one who is smallist and localist, and who favours businesses where owners are still in charge.
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Tom Brokaw was never young.
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We want to encourage people. We want to help them. We want them to see all the good things God has placed in them and give them a right future.
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It's part of the job of the actor to torture the director.
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I'm confident in my ability to maintain a career. I don't know if it will be doing either independent films or plays in New England.
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If a company knows it may have to pay a large amount of money if it poses an unreasonable threat to others, it will have a strong incentive to act better.
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My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.
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I have never used steroids. Period.
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Successful ventures in business or philanthropy are built around great teams who can help us overcome tremendous challenges - and have the right experiences and relationships to do so.
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When you're just like everybody else, you've nothing to offer other than your conformity.
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Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.
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I wouldn't mind being the lead guitarist in an incredibly successful rock band. However, I don't play the guitar.
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My dad can be pretty critical sometimes.
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What's better? Dogs or broomsticks? I mean will the world really ever know?
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But the trouble is that when you drink it, you invariably meet other people drinking it.
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There was great comraderie among players and coaches. We enjoyed the time we were together... road trips were fun. I don't know that there was one moment that stood out among all the good times we had.
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It has never been necessary for me to learn how to read music.
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And how is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?
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I don't know that I can say what exactly love means to me because it would be hard to put that into perspective.
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Equality of rights means that some people cannot simply impose obligations on others, for the moral agency and rights of those others would then be violated.
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I'm not a comic book guy. I've never been to Comic-Con. I don't know anything about that. It's a whole different world.
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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
