William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.
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Time spent on any item of the agenda will be in inverse proportion to the sum involved.
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There are lots of people who haven't been to drama school who have great talent and can be discovered.
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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A man will turn over half a library to make one book.
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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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We do want more, and when it becomes more, we shall still want more. And we shall never cease to demand more until we have received the results of our labor.
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I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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The real problem is deflation. That is the opposite of inflation but equally serious to the borrower.
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I found that I was much more interested in writing and that I didn't like the illustrating at all. I had always been the hardest on myself when I drew and painted. I am not hard on myself when I write. I like what I write, so it is a much happier process.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The truth is I had lots of rehab and now I have a clean bill of health.
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I never liked you, and I always will.
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Over the years as I went through a lot more things, I've gotten closer and closer to God as far as praying a lot more, being into the Word.
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I'm used to working really hard to get a role. I was always auditioning and talking my way into roles.
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Entitled people drive me insane. The world owes you nothing! Get over it!
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If the world operates as one big market, every employee will compete with every person anywhere in the world who is capable of doing the same job. There are lots of them and many of them are hungry.
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In our culture we make heroes of the men who sit on top of a heap of money, and we pay attention not only to what they say in their field of competence, but to their wisdom on every other question in the world.
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A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.
