William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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It's always about finding the right balance between answering some questions and raising new ones to keep your story going.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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Every man prefers to look at a well-shaped woman instead of a rubber ball.
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I don't want to kill windowing; I want to restore choice and options.
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I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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Being on a lunchbox was awesome, and being on a thermos was pretty cool, too.
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I try to basically keep my opinions to myself when it comes to people who are charged with crimes that I don't know anything about.
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The ability for consumers to receive broadcast over the air signal is their right.
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I'd rather be voted 'the sexiest man in Denmark' than 'the ugliest man in Denmark'.
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I always wrote about things that were important to me. I think our past success showed that it was also important for a lot of others.
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I guess what all artists want is for their work to touch someone or for it to be thought provoking.
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In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to the development of the totalitarian regime it became more and more impossible to cooperate in other spheres.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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I feel awful for women who are trying to raise kids on their own, with zero income and no fathers present - that's single motherhood.
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No one can bully me better than me. I'm the first person to the party going, 'Don't worry - you don't have to cut me down, 'cause I'm already there.' I struggled with all those voices and gave them so much power, to the point where they took over my life.
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I would define boastfulness to be the pretension to good which the boaster does not possess.
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When you get asked hundreds of questions, it's not possible to remember the answer to every one.
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We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.
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Regardless of whether one is a writer or a reader, one's task consists first of all in mastering a life that is one's own, not imposed or prescribed from without, no matter how noble its appearance may be. For each of us is issued but one life, and we know full well how it all ends.
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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'
