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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As a species, we've always been interested in what happens when we're no longer around, all the way back to 'Revelations' in 'The New Testament.'
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I don't invent characters because the Almightly has already invented millions… Just like experts at fingerprints do not create fingerprints but learn how to read them.
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Live life like its the last breath you take for that breath is the whole essence of living, the little things in life are what connects us to all the big things we live for.
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Building art is a synthesis of life in materialised form. We should try to bring in under the same hat not a splintered way of thinking, but all in harmony together.
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I love coming back home and seeing old friends and family. I would say it keeps me grounded.
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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!.
