Lewis Carroll Quotes

Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

Lewis Carroll

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• I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.

  

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• I think people really marry far too much; it is such a lottery after all, and for a poor woman a very doubtful happiness.

  

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• It is an endless procession of surprises. The expected rarely occurs and never in the expected manner.

  

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• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

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• There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

  

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• Education is not only a ladder of opportunity, but it is also an investment in our future.

  

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• We encourage the growth of women's hockey.

  

  Gary Bettman
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• Memory is a net: one finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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• Nigeria has no business with poverty. With our human and material resources, we shall strive to eradicate poverty from our country.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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• I am the kind of person who is happy to be doing work. When I miss a 'Brahmotsavam' or an 'Autonagar Surya', I feel bad for a day, and that's all. I don't want to name the films I have missed, but it's true that those which I missed didn't do well.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Bad
  • True

• You're blessed if you have the strength to work.

  

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• The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.

  

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  • Family
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• A certain administration which I won't call by name took the arts out of the schools, and that left the brothers out on the street with nothing, so they went to the turntables and started rhyming. Then they had a way to express themselves, and that's the birth of hip-hop.

  

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  • Name
  • Hip Hop
  • Street

• I would have to have some tragedy and romance in my life, but I've actually had a very cushioned, caring upbringing. I'm desperately seeking some edge. Maybe I'll find it one day.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Life
  • Day
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• I used to wear boxers and a tank top, but now I sleep in the nude. It's kind of weird, because I used to have to wear something to bed, whether it was a tank top or whatever. And now if I have any clothes at all on, it's really hard to get to sleep.

  

  Laura Prepon
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• If a film project were available and the timing was right, I might be interested.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Film
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• You make a movie with some people, you become friends over the process of making this movie and then... you go your own way.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • People
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• I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.

  

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  • Time
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  • Song

• What really motivates people at Facebook is building something that's worthwhile, that they're going to be proud to show to friends and family.

  

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  • People
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• The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have, and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

  

  Lin Yutang
  • Desire
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• 'Ageism,' or whatever you want to call it, is a very English phenomenon. You don't get it too much in many other cultures. And no one says it about authors or poets or filmmakers. 'Oh, they're too old to make films or write books.'

  

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• The Europeans not only colonialized most of the world, they began to colonialize information about the world and its people. In order to do this, they had to forget, or pretend to forget, all they had previously known abut the Africans.

  

  John Henrik Clarke
  • People
  • World

• Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical!

  

  Margaret Fuller
  • Life
  • Heart
  • True

• Why is it that people with the most narrow of minds seem to have the widest of mouths?

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • People
  • Mouths
  • Narrow Of Minds