William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Our company sells about five to six million pounds of sausage a year. We sell it retail and to restaurants. We've got all kinds of products.
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During my theatre days, I was more comfortable doing comedy. It's such an irony. I have always played a buffoon on stage, and yet I don't have any comic role to my credit.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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Art is that which comes to a man, and stands between himself and an implacable witness: the work.
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Making a musical television show was always the ultimate dream. But I really didn't think it would ever happen. Because who's going to make a musical television show?
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Two prominent terms, 'Latino' and 'Hispanic,' refer to people living in the United States who have roots in Latin America, Spain, Mexico, South America, or Spanish-speaking Caribbean countries.
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If the books are selling, the money will follow.
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People seem to think that life began with the achievement of personal independence.
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My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging.
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Since I was 21, I have not been able to sleep past 9 A.M.; I just want to get up and do something.
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My politics would be, must be, have to be, completely separate from my judgment.
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I cannot pretend to throw the least light on such abstruse problems. The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an Agnostic.
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Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred.
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Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
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This is the first time in my 32 years in public broadcasting that PBS has ordered up programs for ideological instead of journalistic reasons.
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Of all living things, only humans consciously anticipate death; the consequent need to choose how to behave in its face - to worry about how to die - distinguishes us from other animals. The need to manage death is the particular lot of humanity.
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True faith will always show itself by its fruits . . . I suspect that, with rare exceptions, men die just as they have lived.
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We must not judge God from this world. It's just a study that didn't come off. It's only a master who could make such a blunder.
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Nowadays, there are sometimes more producers than there are people in the cast, because it takes that much money to put a show on.
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In times of stress, be bold and valiant.
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
