David Copperfield Quotes
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Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
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I know all the critics.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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I remember the day I found out my draft status. I was really floored and kind of staggered around in a daze. It just hadn't occurred to me that I could end up in Vietnam.
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As I've gotten older, I've had to change my food intake.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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You know, most people called rap stupid when it started, and it was one of the most innovative music forms of its time.
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You don't know how to love God and your neighbor unless you look to the law to define it.
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As kids, we have all handled shot guns. From there on, there is no transition. It stays in the toy box. The idea is to get the transition and bridge the gap between the toy box and the shooting range.
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I enter negotiations with Chairman Arafat, the leader of the PLO, the representative of the Palestinian people, with the purpose to have coexistence between our two entities, Israel as a Jewish state and Palestinian state, entity, next to us, living in peace.
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It was really fun. Well, Bobby was just basically a folk singer. He didn't play with any bands or anything, like all the rest of us. Just played his guitar and sang his songs.
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I'm always flattered when someone thinks of me as a potential commissioner of baseball.
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There are two types of women out there: there's the kind of woman who finds something nice and likes to keep it to herself, and then there's the other type, which is me, who wants to share.
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Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.
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I don't have to work; I need to work.
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Neither conservatives nor humorists believe man is good. But left-wingers do.
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They lived under a just and moderate government, and they admitted that one bond of their fidelity was that their rulers were the better men.
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The proposition, that the people are the best keepers of their own liberties, is not true; they are the worst conceivable; they are no keepers at all; they can neither judge, act, think, or will, as a political body.
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Means are ends in the making.
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I'm not very good at parties. I'm a wallflower.
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You'll find us rough, sir, but you'll find us ready.
