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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If your budget is in good shape and you are not indebted too much, you can do what the U.S. did at the beginning of the '30s - building railways, etc., but when you don't have that, you must be far more cautious.
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I too have been in the underworld, as was Odysseus, and I will often be there again; not only sheep have I sacrificed so as to beable to speak with a few dead souls, but neither have I spared my own blood as well.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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Number one, cash is king... number two, communicate... number three, buy or bury the competition.
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Basically, I just write whatever story grabs me rather than considering the genre.
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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.
