William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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Would it be a surprise if entrepreneurs recoil at the thought of consciously courting any person who has more power and money than they have?
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25 years later, you know, I haven't really put too much emphasis on any kind of individual goal, other than trying to win any particular night, trying to find a way to do that.
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I've never made football my priority. My priorities are my faith and my dependence on God.
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Trying to enforce our out-of-touch laws is as foolish and impossible as trying to enforce a law requiring that water flow uphill.
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How does a band like System of a Down get big?
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Anybody can be a runner... We were meant to move. We were meant to run. It's the easiest sport.
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The soap opera was so long ago - the thing about soap operas, and there's something to be said for doing it, but you do a script a day. I don't want to say it's a training ground; it really isn't, but what it does teach you is discipline.
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People usually compare the computer to the head of the human being. I would say that hardware is the bone of the head, the skull. The semiconductor is the brain within the head. The software is the wisdom. And data is the knowledge.
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I want to be great at everything. I want to be the best at everything.
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I consider myself a human being, a Christian, a father, a husband, so many things, before being a black person.
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Ours is a stable country. Ours is a sensible country. And ours is a fundamentally decent country.
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The sharp employ the sharp.
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Far too many girls' and women's romantic relationships are formed around a negation of their own worth and attributes rather than a confirmation of them.
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Pilots are so hard because you have to introduce all these characters, you have to hook an audience, and an audience has such a smaller attention span than maybe they used to have.
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My own rapping skills are quite good, actually. You get this thing, I think it's called Songify or AutoRap, and you talk into them, and they auto-tune it and make it into a quite interesting musical number. And I got one where it builds it into a rap.
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In some ways, I always thought you're better off behaving like a rock star when you're a normal person. Because if you do it as a rock star, you'll end up in the papers and your life will be made a misery.
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Society ... is nothing more than the war of a thousand petty opposed interests, an eternal strife of all the vanities, which, turn in turn wounded and humiliated one by the other, intercross, come into collision, and on the morrow expiate the triumph of the eve in the bitterness of defeat. To live alone, to remain unjostled in this miserable struggle, where for a moment one draws the eyes of the spectators, to be crushed a moment later -- this is what is called being a nonentity, having no existence. Poor humanity!
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Sometimes the wheel turns slowly, but it turns.
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Guarded within the old red wall's embrace, Marshalled like soldiers in gay company, The tulips stand arrayed. Here infantry Wheels out into the sunlight.
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A lot of movies that come from Israel are about war, but there is such good, funny, rounded writing that comes from the country that I wish more people would discover.
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If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
