William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Architecture is my work, and I've spent my whole life at a drawing board, but life is more important than architecture. What matters is to improve human beings.
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English is really free for me; there's no limits to the music and the imagination. And French, it's just I live in Paris, and it's really a poetic language where you can really play with words.
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If you write genre fiction, you follow the rules, and you have to follow them because readers expect that.
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One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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I'd like to explore the more abstract side of people's minds, as opposed to the usual sitcom stuff. I don't want to do the typical sitcom-type humor. I'd want to do stuff like go bowling with pineapples.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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It seems to me that at this time we need education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure.
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The idea that feeling confident and feeling misunderstood are mutually exclusive really bugs me. So a lot of what 'Rookie' is about is just showing that you can be both, and you can like whatever you want.
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I don't think the people are going to change their opinion on the health care plan because President Obama has now won the Nobel Peace Prize.
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We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
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It is in fact agreed that I am the plague, the cholera of the benevolent and generous men who are interested in art and that, when I show myself with my plasters, even the Emperor of the Sahara would flee.
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I think a man cannot strive wholeheartedly with an enemy unless he have much in common with him, and as the strife goes on he gets liker.
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For what constitutes a child?-Ignorance. What constitutes a child?-Want of instruction; for they are our equals so far as their degree of knowledge permits.
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Most of my projects seem to start as exploratory journeys with no visible end in sight.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
