David Copperfield Quotes

Because, if it was so long ago, how could the people about him have made that mistake of putting some of the trouble out of his head, after it was taken off, into mine?

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• The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.

  

  Barbara Walters
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• People like me were supposed to be into exclusivity, unapproachable. That's what I hate most. I think it's very demode.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
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• FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.

  

  Felix Adler
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• Bill Mitchell said he really liked it. But when he asked the other four their opinions, we all took one look at ourselves in our raggedy long winter coats and cracked up. We knew we weren't likely to tempt anyone or anything, but what the hell, it was as good a name as any.

  

  Otis Williams The Temptations
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• I am a beneficiary of the American people's generosity, and I hope we can have comprehensive immigration legislation that allows this country to continue to be enriched by those who were not born here.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • American
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• I think Delhiites know how to party, but Kolkata has people who know how to celebrate. I think that's the main difference.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Party
  • Celebrate

• I think people look at me and don't expect much. Even though, I expect a whole lot.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
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• When I find myself in the company of scientists, I feel like a shabby curate who has strayed by mistake into a room full of dukes.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Science
  • Myself
  • Mistake

• Capitalism offers you freedom, but far from giving people freedom, it enslaves them.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Giving
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• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
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• To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Relationship

• The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • People
  • World
  • Knowledge

• In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Think
  • France

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • Up
  • Work
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• I had no luck when I started out as a model. I keep telling people that it's the only career in the world that you can't choose for yourself - you have to be chosen.

  

  Ines de La Fressange
  • People
  • World
  • Career

• I'm always very uncomfortable with people. It's something that I get upset with myself for, but that's the way I am. But I love people. And when I'm on the stage, I can embrace people and still feel safe.

  

  Nancy Marchand
  • People
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  • Ways

• Middle-class people worry a lot about money. They worry a lot about job security, and they do a lot of nine-to-five stuff.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• I'm always sorry to finish a book, to let go of characters I love, people I've struggled to understand for years, people who evolve before me.

  

  Kathryn Harrison
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  • Book
  • Sorry

• I think it makes people in the Pentagon kind of nervous to know that chemical agents and environmental factors could cause so much damage in terms of what may happen in the future.

  

  Bernie Sanders
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  • May
  • Future

• I'm a total loner. I can't even answer texts or take my phone with me when I'm working!

  

  Gage Golightly
  • Working
  • Answer
  • Phone

• In my own opinion, psychology in football is far more important than anyone believes, including the coaches.

  

  Ara Parseghian
  • Important
  • Football
  • Opinion

• My first job, which I had to take when not more than fifteen, was assistant to a fruit peddler. It seemed all right to me until a little girl told me snootily, 'We never deal with peddler!' Thereupon I resigned, ashamed of what I was doing.

  

  Vash Young
  • Job
  • Girl
  • Fruit

• Because, if it was so long ago, how could the people about him have made that mistake of putting some of the trouble out of his head, after it was taken off, into mine?

  

  David Copperfield
  • People
  • Long
  • Taken