William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
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By what right do you refuse to accept the vote of a citizen of the United States?
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With a face like this, there aren't a lot of lawyers or priest roles coming my way. I've got a face that was meant for a mug shot, and that's what I've been doing for the past thirty years.
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That's what I love about our music - it'll never be a hit because you can't dance to it.
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Brain cells are normally not sensitive to light. So by introducing light-sensitive proteins into specific types of neurons, we can now selectively control that specific type of neuron by shining light in the brain.
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The only difference between a dead skunk lying in the road and a dead lawyer lying in the road is that there are skid marks around the skunk.
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The thing about travelling is that you work hard and play hard, but you can do all those things without your parents knowing.
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I'm past my wooing days now. See, I am an honest person. If I like a girl, I will go and tell her.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!
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I've been lucky enough to have fulfilled so many ambitions, and gone way past anything I ever thought I would do. I could never have imagined the career that I've had with the Foo Fighters - playing stadiums and having songs on the radio. It's amazing, and my goal is really just to carry on playing.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I have a dress-up chest at home. I love to create this fantasy kind of thing.
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It's a trend to insult Wale, like that makes you cool on the Internet, and a part of it is because I respond.
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My most joy that I have is dancing.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
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I was a horrible athlete.
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We recognised Urdu as the second official language and made it a medium of examination in all Bihar Public Service Commission tests.
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It may well be said that the answer to the question: Of what do the cosmic rays in fact consist before they produce their familiar secondary radiation phenomena in the earth's atmosphere? can only be obtained from numerous measurements in the stratosphere.
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I think I would love to have dinner with Gandhi; Jesus Christ; Mother Theresa; Ingrid Newkirk, the president of PETA; and Madonna.
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Acting in 'Star Wars' I felt like a raisin in a giant fruit salad, and I didn't even know who the cantaloupes were.
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All I have to do to continue to make things work is make great records, and that's more important than having a crazy master plan.
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Those four Super Bowl losses? Yeah, it sucks that we didn't win, but what are you going to do about it? You can feel sorry for yourself, but that's not how I was brought up.
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Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
