William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I am very concerned about nutrition and always try to be careful about what I eat.
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Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.
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By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
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Life is not about dwelling on the bad.
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The Sherpas play a very important role in most mountaineering expeditions, and in fact many of them lead along the ridges and up to the summit.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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I prefer to make movies which not only have a message for 'then' but a message for 'now.'
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I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
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If you look up the definition of news in the dictionary, it isn't what you watch on TV.
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Rohinton Mistry's celebrated novel 'Such a Long Journey' was pulled off the syllabus of Mumbai University because local extremists objected to its content.
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In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I think that if you can't be loyal to the Church, it's best to get out.
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I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'
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I was actually a Cowboys fan.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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My senior thesis was a documentary. By the time I graduated from college, I thought I was going to make films, and my interest in acting was there but kind of confused.
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I always wanted to be an actor, even when I was a little kid. When I used to run away from home, I'd go to movies and sit all night watching Kirk Douglas. When I was 16, I tried getting into the Actors Studio, and they told me to get lost. I said 'I'll come back when I'm a man,' and I came back when I was 30.
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I miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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He checked, of course. Being sure and being willing to risk that surety against his future were not the same thing.
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The cell, over the billions of years of her life, has covered the earth many times with her substance, found ways to control herself and her environment, and insure her survival.
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If you want to believe that humans walked with dinosaurs and the planet is a few thousand years old, that is absolutely fine with me. If you want to teach this to your kids, I don't care. If states want to teach creationism in their schools, there is nothing I can do about it, so I don't sweat it.
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Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their cliches.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
