Lord Kelvin Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all human affairs into account you will find that some comfort is to be derived from them.
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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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Women have a lot of... attitudes enforced in us about our sense of attractiveness being bound up in long, flowing, Hollywood kind of hair.
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I do watch 'American Idol' sometimes. It's not really that pleasurable... I take that back. It is the epitome of a guilty pleasure. Sometimes there's some good singers on that show.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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Just making the crowd laugh is not really doing things for me anymore. That's just knowing how to kill; I've learned how to kill – but also learned when a crowd's laughter is meaningful.
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Take seriously the traditions, the Christian roots, and all the values that are the basis of the civilisation of Europe.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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As soon as there is life there is danger.
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Every vote counts and every vote must be counted.
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I don't see myself in the political realm.
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The first cellphone I owned was hardly a slim, high-tech device - it was more like a brick with buttons, only with worse reception. If you wanted to use your phone to give someone a message, you were better off throwing it at him and hoping you broke his car window.
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
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'Kiss Me.' That's my 'Twilight' tune, a song you'd have on the 'Twilight' soundtrack.
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Rap music's been around for too long now to be inspirational. The words are, but the music isn't.
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Chemistry was always my weakest subject in high school and college.
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Do you see yonder cloud that’s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and ‘tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale.
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The atheistic idea is so nonsensical that I cannot put it into words.
