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 was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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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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We want every human being in the womb to be safe, not have these babies be killed to solve some dilemma.
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We want to be two-way players; that's the best thing.
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I've met Bob Dylan. We did one of those non-handshake handshakes. I was with all guys, and he shook hands with all of them, and then they said, 'And this is Kate,' and I put my hand out, and he didn't put his out. And then I took my hand away, and he put his out. It was one of those. We finally did shake. And then I fainted!
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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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No sooner do men settle down to a given set of ideas, a pat-tern of living and of thinking, than fault-finding begins, and fault-finding is the tap-root of revolutions.
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The hardest thing in leadership is managing your own psychology, and yet it's also the least talked about.
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Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.
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If we can develop the ability to be aware of the present moment, we can use the past as a guide for ordering our actions in the future, so that we may attain our goal.
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If you ask, "Am I my brother's keeper?" The answer is, "You are.
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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.'
