William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
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I feel that there has been progress made since I was a boy on matters of race, but we have a long way to go.
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I was in San Francisco for 'Trauma' and then got back to town and got situated and started looking at things and passing on things. I think I was around for a month and a half, and there were other projects that were up, but it's all a waiting game. And then, 'The Vampire Diaries' came up, and I was really interested and read for it.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Now and always, hard-line policy and those who embrace it are vessels for darker forces that are at once self-cannibalizing and combustible. No good can come of them. They are unsustainable because their sense of righteousness denies human worth.
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Some of our best journalists take themselves even more seriously than the politicians they write about.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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Young people really want you to give them a road map, and they will follow it to a tee. If you tell them, 'These are the eight steps you have to take to be successful,' they will do all eight very earnestly.
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Choreography and creativity - it's my matrix; let's see where we can move.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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I've always dreamed of having a large family.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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When I grew up, I thought I was Jewish. Now I don't consider myself Jewish. I consider myself a Kabbalist.
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I had rather have a plain, russet-coated Captain, that knows what he fights for, and loves what he knows, than that which you call a Gentle-man and is nothing else.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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We owe it to American taxpayers to make sure that contracts intended for small businesses go to small businesses.
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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There will always be that dreadful monster prejudice to do extra battle against because of their color.
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I love breakfast - I like going to sleep at night because I know I get to wake up and eat in the morning.
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The flame of anger, bright and brief, sharpens the barb of love.
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It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
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I nursed men back to sanity who were driven to despair. I solicited clothes for the ragged children, for the desperate mothers. I laid out the dead, the martyrs of the strike.
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I'm not even a trained producer. I just keep following my ear and working on stuff until it sounds the way I like it.
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As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!
