William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
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Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.
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It is sort of boring to stay in the same spot. You know, I didn't set out to become the first to do this, the first to do that. It was just that my interests were so diversified.
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I'm a paleoanthropologist, and my job is to define man's place in nature and explore what makes us human.
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As long as I am nothing but a ghost of the civil dead, I can do nothing.
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Although he's no longer with us, Steve Jobs is still inspirational to me, as he managed to find the balance between right brain/left-brain thinking that is crucial to building a creative technology business.
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Procrastination is opportunity's assassin.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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I eat a cheeseburger with French fries almost every day.
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I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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All the things that happen to people in the industry today, the actors, what they have to put up with, all the people wanting to know every single moment of their lives - I think it's really sad.
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'Hannity' had a a guy on that said, 'I fathered 20 kids by 14 mothers.' That is s cultural issue which has demeaned our society and has caused our society dearly in terms of imprisonment. Who's going to be the fathers to those children? Who's going to pay child support?
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I think every teenager feels like a Martian in something, whether it's in their family, I think, or in their school. I think every teenager, every human being has a sense that they don't belong somewhere.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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As a woman, I've learned that having a uniform of your staples or setting your look and saying what distinguishes you - like red lips or hair or whatever - leaves so much time for the rest of the day.
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It wasn't on my agenda, but the thing about getting important awards is it makes the adventure of your career have a little more possibility. I think just what's happened so far is already making the opportunities more interesting, even though I'm at the twilight of my career of like 48 years.
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The Bible calls us to love our neighbors, and to do justice and love kindness, not to indiscriminately kill one another.
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A lot of my inspiration is what straight-size women wear - why is there a disconnect from what they wear and what we can wear?
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The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
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I've been obsessed with the Kennedys since I was a child, and Bobby Kennedy is, hands down, my favorite among them.
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If you're running on fumes, you get to a point of diminishing results. Get some rest.
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Meek Nature's evening comment on the showsThat for oblivion take their daily birthFrom all the fuming vanities of earth.
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.
