William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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You don't have to be an heiress to look like one, if you act like one then everyone will just presume you are one.
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First of all, I'd like to say here the fact that I'm not naturally a craftsman has made me work very hard.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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When I write and develop things myself, I might work for a while on a script from a book, and then I go back and read the book and go back into it to see if I lost something: is there something there?
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.
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I don't want my writing to be work to read. My main goal is completely shameless entertainment. I want people to smile and giggle and enjoy the book. I'm not trying to save the world through literature.
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That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.
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We're in the same ghettos, same inner cities, and we're suffering from the same problems. Every problem the blacks have, the Latinos have.
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It's never been seen that a street artist go as far as I've gone - keep consistent without wanting to do a bunch of ventures outside of music to keep my face out there.
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Brick-and-mortar at the end of the day matters because viral is great, but it comes and goes as fast.
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'Independents' - the industry term for companies that have more capital and know-how than the typical 'wildcatter' - can grow either by exploring and finding reserves or by buying a company that already has them.
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I don't make resolutions, because resolutions seem so ephemeral and transient to go away.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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There's nothing funnier than the human animal.
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The Federal Highway Administration has allowed states to take advantage of a loophole in federal regulations, delaying bridge inspections to every four years instead of the two years normally required.
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In England, football is a big thing to talk about, but Liverpool, it's a special place. You feel it when you make your first step.
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The power of Playboy is its appeal around the world.
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I've always had lots of friends and my house was the house they all hung out at.
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Who hath a prospect of the different state of perfect happiness or misery that attends all men after this life, depending on their behavior, the measures of good and evil that govern his choice are mightily changed.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
