William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I would love to be in a Nicholas Sparks movie. And Scarlett Johansson inspired me. I think it's cool when women are able to kick butt.
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For many years, even as users became more sophisticated, personal computers took too much effort to use without problem-solving, keeping alive the yearning for greater simplicity. Microsoft's dominant Windows platform, in particular, was a home for all manner of bugs and problems that required IT people to straighten out.
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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The reasons asthma doesn't affect my work or play is that I had accurate diagnostics and follow treatment regimens closely. It's when someone thinks they're fine and that they don't need help that they usually get in trouble.
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Playing drums feels like coming home for me. Even during the White Stripes I thought: 'I'll do this for now, but I'm really a drummer.' That's what I'll put on my passport application.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I've stopped caring about skeptics, but if they libel or defame me they will end up in court.
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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I suppose I shouldn't go around admitting I speak untruths on the radio.
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Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have; it depends solely on what you think.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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Kylie didn't know which one of the fairies were doing it, or if it was both- she honestly didn't care- but the thousands of tiny pinpricks of panic started to fade. She felt safe and that was all that mattered.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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Hate knows that love is the cure.
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If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
