William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
Quotes to Explore
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I like to look at 'A Place in the Sun' every now and get inspired by it.
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He has the finest, fundamentally sound golf swing I've ever seen.
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I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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If the colonists hadn't rejected British militarism and the massive financial burden of maintaining the British military, America wouldn't exist.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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If I buy a game on Steam and I'm running it on Windows, I can go to one of the Steam machines and already have the game. So you benefit as a developer; you benefit as a consumer in having the PC experience extended in the living room.
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War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.
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With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.
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If I had a spreadsheet on my computer, it looked like I was busy.
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Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
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Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.
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For 'Hidalgo,' I just spent as much time around horses as I could, which made sense.
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In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.
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Some people think happiness is a luxury, but it's a necessity. You need to make space for it in your life.
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I do all my own stunts. I'm kidding.
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I don't think I'm that intelligent. I think I'm semi-intelligent.
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I think Barack Obama is a socialist. I think he cares for his country - don't get me wrong about that - but I think he truly misunderstands what this country was based upon, the values that America was based upon, which was free enterprise and having the ability to risk your capital and having a chance to have a return on your investment.
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it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
