William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Dear London, British fashion is a serious business. The British fashion industry is worth £21bn to the U.K. economy and employs 819,000 people across the country. With your help, we would like to see these numbers rise for the good of our industry, our talented designers, and our reputation worldwide.
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I was a huge fan of comedy and movies and TV growing up, and I was able to memorize and mimic a lot of things, not realizing that that meant I probably wanted to be an actor. I just really, really amused myself and my friends with memorizing entire George Carlin or Steve Martin albums.
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How can the cost of education be the cost of life? It is unacceptable; it is reprehensible that we have allowed it to fester.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I love whimsical things and forests. I'm really into all that.
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If you can find a frock you look nice in and can run up three flights of stairs, you're not fat.
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No women in ancient Rome ever had the vote.
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It's astounding how challenging plays are... The scary part is that you get to encounter humanity in a way you don't in films. The audience amplifies the experience.
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I don't see as many movies as I used to. Or, I should say, as many movies as I would like to.
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Not having sub-governance would be like anyone who owns USD being able to walk into a Google shareholder meeting and voting without owning Google stock just because Google shares happen to be denominated in USD.
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When you practice reporting for as long as I have, you keep yourself at a distance from True Believers. Either conservatives or liberals or Democrats or Republicans.
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Once you get depressed, you don't really feel like doing anything. You're kind of discouraged about yourself, and then the weight gain, too, or that makes me more depressed.
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A girl child who is even a little bit educated is more conscious of family planning, health care and, in turn, her children's own education.
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Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.
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My people are few. They resemble the scattering trees of a storm-swept plain.
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Coming up with a way to fix mistakes challenges your creativity and your critical thinking skills and your resourcefulness. Often you end up with something better than what you planned on in the first place.
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I never wear mascara; I laugh until I cry too often.
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I applaud the effort it takes to put a record together.
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Man, not men, is the most important consideration.
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Still let my tyrants know, I am not doomed to wear Year after year in gloom, and desolate despair; A messenger of Hope comes every night to me, And offers for short life, eternal liberty.
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God himself has no right to be a tyrant.
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...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
