David Copperfield Quotes
'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'to the young this is a world for action; not for moping and droning in.'
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Real education enhances the dignity of a human being and increases his or her self-respect. If only the real sense of education could be realized by each individual and carried forward in every field of human activity, the world will be so much a better place to live in.
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I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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My wife had taken off on a plane. Two airplanes had crashed into the World Trade Center. I, of course, like any other person, felt potentially devastated, panicky a little bit.
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I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.
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Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.
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My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.
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The world is shifting from a hegemonic era, where the United States dominated alone, to a multipolar system.
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The world is the best of all possible worlds, and everything in it is a necessary evil.
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There really isn't a story that you can't tell inside of it. It's very much a clearinghouse for anything that goes on in the world. So you're not at all limited.
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We need the world to respect us. They consume a lot of hits and just act like it wasn't... I ain't never seen nobody make these many hits and not get notified for it. And change the game like we did and bring the flow to the game the way we did and not get noticed for it, like the the big way - the real system way.
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You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.
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The water is alive. It is alive. If we could get a mask and fins and drop down off these docks, we'd see snook and redfish and probably goliath grouper. And it's an amazing world unto itself and a very thin demarcation between one world and the other. You know, the distance of the water surface.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Among the world's 500 largest companies, not one has completely relied on its own growth to develop.
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I know that part of the reason I read Tolkien when I'm ill is that there is an almost total absence of sexuality in his world, which is restful.
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However, I don't feel the world is looking over my shoulder when I am working - I never think about this at all. What I think about is trying to make my work pure, and if it is pure then it can be accessible. It is quite straight forward really.
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I don't want to start getting my little violin out, but travelling across the world constantly and staying in hotels is tough, man.
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Her heart lived in no cherished secrets of its own, but in feelings which it longed to share with all the world.
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What I consider to be the barometer for what is a rock artist and what is not, is somebody who has a certain element of blues, even a hint of soul or blues music, derivative of African-American blues, folk, spiritual, or gospel.
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Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.
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Sometimes with pop music, you have to see it to love it. With soul music, it's sparse. There's nothing that's pretentious or planned. It's just so gutsy.
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'David,' said Mr. Murdstone, 'to the young this is a world for action; not for moping and droning in.'
