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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End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it.
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I'm not put off so much by first-time directors if the script is great. If the script isn't there, I'm not there.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
