William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
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Show business is one of those things that people can use to get themselves out of the lower rung of society.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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Someone once told me I looked good in red, so I bought every piece of clothing in red and bright-red lipstick. I had huge hair, as big as I could tease it and spray it.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The thing is, if I ever found a guy I could fall in love with, I'd want to marry him and have his children. And that scares me to death because I think I'm a whole bunch of crazy, and I always worry that a guy will walk away once he really, truly knows me.
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Problems will disappear as darkness disappears with the onset of light.
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At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
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The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I was a journalist. I was a drummer. I was everything. I didn't know what the heck I was. But with Jack Paar, the job was very specific - no confusion. You came in each day. You wrote five pages of jokes. You handed the pages in... The pressure was to write five pages of jokes every day. I did it, and I thought, 'This is what I like to do.'
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I love music. I still play cello a few times a week.
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I could have probably been just as successful by not going to college, but it was the most intellectually stimulating environment that I was ever in.
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I do, I kick major butt in 'Dredd.' I get to kill people. I break a guy's neck by roundhouse kicking him in the face. It was me, I did it. I learned how to roundhouse kick. I also do it with my hands cuffed behind my back so it's pretty cool I have to say. Yeah, leather body suit, blonde hair, the whole thing.
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Don't take things too seriously, and just chill.
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We always push the boundaries on the styles we put on a record.
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In order for answers to become clear, the questions have to be clear.
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I hadn't worked for a couple of years so I thought it would be nice to earn some money and pay the bills.
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The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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Ben, that funeral will be massive! They'll come from Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire! All the old-timers with the strange license plates - that boy will be thunderstruck, Ben, because he never realized - I am known! Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey - I am known, Ben, and he'll see it with his eyes once and for all.
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The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.
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During much of my life, I was anxious to be what someone else wanted me to be. Now I have given up that struggle. I am what I am.
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.
