William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.
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A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.
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I do think women can have it all - but not all women. If you take daring steps and are smart about it, you can probably have it all. But you might have to wait a while.
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Do I want to write a musical? No. I like to do musicals.
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There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
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Koran says whoever believes in God in the last day shall be saved. It is a religion whose very name, Islam, comes from the word Shalom, which means peace. It's about establishing peace. We greet each other with peace be upon you, which the Jews do in greeting each other.
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I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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An unlimited America was the vision for the nation set forth by our Founding Fathers. It is the vision enshrined in those two great charters of freedom: our Declaration of Independence and our Constitution. Many of America's most intractable problems stem from the fact that we have strayed from that vision - and lost direction.
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I don't think there's any dearth of talent in India - we've always had the best juniors in the world.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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My life has been a roller coaster ride, but somehow I've always been able to land on my feet and still play the guitar.
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Revolutionaries do not make revolutions. The revolutionaries are those who know when power is lying in the street and then they can pick it up.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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I just feel I've got thousands and thousands of young fans that have to learn about what's real when it comes to AIDS.
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Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
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If not music, I think it would be pretty cool to be an ear, nose and throat doctor.
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I wasn't that great in sports. I started doing children's theater and loved it. I thought I had a great thing going with musicals. I thought, 'I can do this. It's fun.' I wanted to go for it, and I thought I'd like to make a living doing this.
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Alas, how love can trifle with itself!
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
