William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
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Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.
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Any competent actor could have done what I did.
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I've been a big astrophysics nut since I was 12. I have always had a real soft spot for the bizarreness of quantum mechanics. But I gave up on being a scientist in high school - I'm just not that good at math.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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It's brutal out on the football field.
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I got a big mouth.
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You have to mind your Ps and Qs a little bit.
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
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There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever.
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The sensory acts are accordingly distinguished by their objects.
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I can tell more about my weaknesses than my strengths.
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If you don't go to a dance, you can never be rejected, but you'll never get to dance, either.
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I don't think that the Grammys are in any way a just way of grading music.
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I know that there's people that have expectations of me, and I'm a people pleaser, so I want them to be happy.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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Often they benefit who suffer wrong.
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For me, as an actor, going from TV to film was interesting because TV and film are two very different things.
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Two days a week, I go to my office at The Grotto, a writer's collective in San Francisco. I get there at 8:15 and write until around 1 or 2 P.M.
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Round and round the questions flew, until finally I found myself standing at the open door of a bookshop. It’s natural in times of great perplexity, I think, to seek out the familiar, and the high shelves and long rows of neatly lined-up spines were immensely reassuring. Amid the smell of ink and binding, the dusty motes in beams of strained sunlight, the embrace of warm, tranquil air, I felt that I could breathe more easily.
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
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In any business, the more you learn, the more sympathetic you can be to other people's positions.
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'No business before breakfast, Glum!' says the King. 'Breakfast first, business next.'
