William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
Quotes to Explore
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I've been watching 'Walking Dead' with my son, and there is absolutely nothing in there I find shocking, but it's cool, and I like it.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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Nothing exists except through language.
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Having kids is something I want to see in my future - I hope.
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The United Nations system is still the best instrument for making the world less fragile.
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Mostly, I don't write overtly personal stuff.
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You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.
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The secret to everything for me is doing yoga every day. It does do nice things for your body, but it also kind of calms you down and chills you out. Other than that, I don't really drink alcohol and I always take my makeup off at night!
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I try to support stories that enable us to see the difficulties in our society and the challenges we face, which is why I've also produced documentaries like 'Brick City' and 'Serving Life.'
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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Deep breaths are very helpful at shallow parties.
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As athletes, we're defined by what we've accomplished. Those are what most people remember and what you get paid for. But I learned more from my failures than from all of my successes put together - failures as an athlete and as a person.
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'Sairat' is a film I absolutely loved. I have great regard for the movie and its film-maker. The movie blew my mind.
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Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.
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I am primarily concerned with the condition of man.
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Cancer is awful. It took 10 years until I didn't think about it every day. Nobody should go through this. Nobody.
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When I was growing up in South Korea in the '70s and early '80s, the country was too poor to buy original records. Everything was bootlegged.
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The 2012 London Olympic Games fostered a generation of hope. I witnessed women participating for the very first time, representing every nation.
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I prefer the smaller budget versus the bigger budget because the mentality that goes along with big budget filmmaking doesn't really suit me; the mind-set that money is the answer.
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I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.
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Frugality, I've learned, has its own cost, one that sometimes lasts forever.
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I'm concerned that Speaker Boehner is getting ahead of House Republicans when he commits to getting a 'comprehensive approach' to immigration taken care of 'once and for all.'
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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.
