William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.
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I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.
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I'm a realist and I always have been. Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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The country has undergone a profound social upheaval, the greatest the proletariat has ever known.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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Sleep is the best meditation.
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With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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My theory was that what I had to do was make a study of human behavior.
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So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.
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Any kind of restrictions put on free speech would have worse consequences than bullying.
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I really like clever men who challenge you.
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You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.
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The best V-Day gift I've ever received was a personalized photo collage.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I always have the impression that I write the same book.
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We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.
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It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them.
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When you're an artist, you're generally working at home alone in a studio. It's just really good to get with other guys and make art something you can share.
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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
