William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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When I was pregnant, I had the romantic idea that after the baby was born I would not only take up reading in earnest again, but also write a novel while my daughter slept in her Moses basket. Of course, I barely had time to keep up with my magazines until she started sleeping properly.
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There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America.
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Relationships, like cars, should undergo regular services to make sure they are still roadworthy.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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I think I need security.
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When we talk about change, we, the business leaders, have to implement it. We have to look at what we're not doing and what we should be doing.
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If you keep on saying things are going to be bad, you have a good chance of being a prophet.
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All my friends are like, 'Can you be on my side in the zombie apocalypse?' and I'm like, 'I got this.'
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I hear a lot of bad TV commercials that try to sound like Where It's At. That pretty much turned me off from using the electric piano for a lot of years.
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Switzerland is a place where they don't like to fight, so they get people to do their fighting for them while they ski and eat chocolate.
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I feel I will always have that spirit bear with me, so I will always feel protected.
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I've been given an opportunity to make a difference.
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Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.
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In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
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I raced locally for a year, went to Europe the year after and went to the Olympics the year after that.
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When I was in charge of the Christian Coalition I was available to mobilize grass roots support for somebody.
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I assume most guitar players are like me. They're playing, having fun; then they get a magazine in the mail that says "Shred Is Dead" and they say, "What the Hell?" They throw it away and keep on playing.
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Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla Maples, Trump's second wife, she's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs. We don't know whether she's got this part yet gestures toward own chest, but time will tell...
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Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
