William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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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 miss that sensation of a small achievement feeling like a really big deal.
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My father said that I could always become an actress, but I couldn't go back to college later in life. So I had to first finish my education, and then I could do what I wanted. At the time, I was not pleased, but now, I can't thank him enough. My parents were absolutely right.
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When a government for the people becomes a government in spite of the people, then who are we really serving?
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When you come to a fork in the road, take it.
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Nature is schoolmistress, the soul the pupil; and whatever one has taught or the other has learned has come from God - the Teacher of the teacher.
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I don't mind a bikini bottom.
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The one thing I know, everyone respects the true person and everyone's not true with themselves. All of these people who are heroes, these guys who have been lily white and clean all their lives, if they went through what I went through, they would commit suicide. They don't have the heart that I have. I've lived places they can't defecate in.
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This is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
