Lewis Carroll Quotes

I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

Lewis Carroll

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• I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

  

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• Working with Bruno Mars would be really awesome. I'm such a fan of his, and I love that he's a real artist.

  

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• I'm so happy with 'Grease' and 'Xanadu,' particularly because of the music in both films.

  

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• If there is one thing that the women and men of the late 20th century who have an awareness and enjoyment of history can be sure of, it is that Islam was not sent from Heaven to foster egotism and mediocrity.

  

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• Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.

  

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• At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.

  

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• It's so funny how my name has always been such a big deal. When I was growing up, my family was always moving. I had to meet new people all the time. And they'd laugh.

  

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• Adam Smith pointed out that there were three things that make us more prosperous, in a general sort of way: freedom to pursue our own self-interest; specialization, which he called division of labor; and freedom of trade.

  

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• The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.

  

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• It's not fair for little kids to feel bad about themselves for how they look.

  

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• Eventually, I went to college to study psychology, but I was getting more and more TV roles, so I thought, 'You know? It's kind of like psychology, but a little more selfish.' I took a break from school, moved to L.A., and never went back.

  

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• I wish I could manage to be glad! Only I never can remember the rule. You must be very happy, living in this wood, and being glad whenever you like!

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Remember
  • Happy
  • Rule