William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's my private life, and it's not up for grabs.
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I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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I keep in touch with what's real.
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A good indignation brings out all one's powers.
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I thought that communism, the tyranny of communism, was an abomination and I beseeched God to bring that terrible evil down and he did. It was a great triumph, it took awhile, but it happened.
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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Nearer the gods no mortal may approach.
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When an issue is so fraught with partisanship, a special counsel provides some modicum of transparency and accountability rather the the veil of politics.
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Remember that no relationship is a total waste of time. You can always learn something about yourself.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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During my early years, I was mercurially lively, always in motion, spilling over with pranks, impertinent and precocious, and, at the same time, intractably stubborn and angry if anything went against my will.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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Listen, we're still selling stardom. That doesn't go away because MTV decides they can't play videos or they want to program themselves more as a traditional T.V. station. Vevo and YouTube are like MTV online, and on demand.
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The irony is that, coming from a white-collar British background, I tend to play blue-collar Americans!
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I've learned that exercise alone is not enough to stay healthy - it's a whole lifestyle.
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When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.
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Children became an obsessive theme in Victorian culture at the same time that they were being exploited as never before. As the horrors of life multiplied for some children, the image of childhood was increasingly exalted. Children became the last symbols of purity in a world which was seen as increasingly ugly.
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I love being a writer so much that I almost can't believe that I am one.
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I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
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Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
