William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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Best wine if you're stranded on a deserted island? 1982 Salon Champagne.
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Would the world be a better place if all drugs were legalized tomorrow? Absolutely. But pragmatically speaking, you're not going to go from the criminalization of all drugs to the legalization of drugs overnight.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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Anti-inflammatories always seemed to work well for my joints, but the problem was you couldn't take them all the time.
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I am very close to my brother Ramesh Babu. When my father was away for shootings, my brother would take care of me, and I am very close to him, and yes, Dad's always special.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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As a liberal and progressive, I abhor the notion of conflict and bloodshed and very much want to find a diplomatic solution to the Iran nuclear issue.
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There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another.
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If I was to keep playing, I had to play in Detroit, and it just wasn't for me anymore.
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Happiness is a mysterious concept. It seems to work best as futurity: at that point I will be happy, et cetera. I feel like I experience small pieces of joy day to day.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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The guy who kind of identified as my dad was my dad's brother, who was the second person my mom married.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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'The Art Student's War' is, at its core, a traditional American wartime love story. As such, it is timely and engrossing. By the end, all its principal characters 'have been to Hell and back.'
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I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".
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“I love that forever doesn't exist, but we have a word for it anyway, and use it all the time. It's beautiful and doomed.”
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Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence.
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I have agreed to lend my voice to Nature's Guard, an animated series which hopefully will go into production in the near future. The characters are all animals. My voice will be for a character named Longtail.
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Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
