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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It is Christlike work to soothe and sympathize, and only those who have drunk the cup of sorrow are fully equipped to do it.
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You'll never get rich by working for your boss.
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Good science fiction is always based in contemporary truths.
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I was thinking about what it was like for my parents to have a strange kid with a hobby or a pursuit that maybe they weren't that familiar with. It must have been a strange experience - nerve-wracking, in some ways.
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Art is standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world, and letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.
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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.
