William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.
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It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.
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Southern Appalachians have been ridiculed since the country began. In fiction, they're usually depicted in a cartoonish manner. The region is poor, and very suspicious of outsiders, so there's a sort of 'us versus them' situation. They're easy to poke fun at.
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I saw hell. The hospital had divided and conquered pretty successfully.
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I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.
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Incidentally, our railroad facilities are under video surveillance by the federal police. However, the federal and state governments will have to determine whether video surveillance shouldn't be significantly expanded to a certain degree.
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As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.
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I hate wars and violence but if they come then I don't see why we women should just wave our men a proud goodbye and then knit them balaclavas.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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The core of my personality consists of many selves.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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It was improv that really helped me start coming up with recipes and just believe in my instincts. That's why the first recipe I made up was 'I Ain't Chicken Chicken' because I finally felt bold and fearless in the kitchen, which was an entirely new feeling for me.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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We set up a small bitcoin and ethereum mining operation... that miraculously now is actually making a lot of money.
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Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
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I always try to live in the moment.
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I try to be - well, not holy - but my whole family is very religious, and I want to be like that, too. So I try my hardest to be more in touch with the Lord.
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God may not guide us in an obvious way because he wants us to make decisions based on faith and character.
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In most cases we perform better when we're busy than when we're not busy. When we're slow, our mind wanders. We're not as attentive to our business. When we're on the firing line, we're sharper. We move more quickly and get the job done right.
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We don't want to repeat the unintended consequences that surfaced following the NAFTA agreement.
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I love to look at physically beautiful people, and obviously others do, too. But there's such a narrow definition of what that is; the people who are my friends in life, the more I get to know them over the years, the more beautiful they are to me.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
