David Copperfield Quotes
'Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'
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We need not worry so much about what man descends from - it's what he descends to that shames the human race.
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Kids need time for problem solving, critical thinking, applying knowledge through project-based instruction, working in teams, falling down and getting right back up to figure out what they didn't understand and why.
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In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.
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Muslims must speak out and explain who they are, what they believe in, what they stand for, what is the meaning of their life. They must have the courage to denounce what is said and done by certain Muslims in the name of their religion.
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I would be lying if I told you that I hadn't had aspirations to run for a statewide office.
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A movie is so visually powerful, so overwhelming, that it tends to crowd out how you might have imagined things.
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Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.
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Greed is so destructive. It destroys everything.
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I swear I think there is nothing but immortality!
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I am beginning to lose patience With my personal relations. They are not deep And they are not cheap.
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The Ogre does what ogres can,Deeds quite impossible for Man,But one prize is beyond his reach,The Ogre cannot master Speech:About a subjugated plain,Among its desperate and slain,The Ogre stalks with hands on hips,While drivel gushes from his lips.
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What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one - which is really the realm of the artist.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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HAM radio is very inexpensive, it is nearly unlimited and free to use. The only limitation is that you can only talk for five minutes to any given person because the station gets out of range within that time.
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When someone is 90, and you've seen their entire life, you just think you know everything about them and that they must live a straight-laced life.
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Instead of seeing depression as a dysfunction, it is a functioning phenomenon. It stops you cold, sets you down, makes you damn miserable.
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I feel like, sometimes, plus-size women get scared to show skin... but summer is the time that we can enjoy doing that.
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In Los Angeles, people dress with the deep and earnest hope that people will do nothing but stare at them.
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Self-esteem is something I still battle. People look at me and say, 'You've got fame. You've got admiration. You've done this; you've done that.' As far as I'm concerned, I haven't done anything. I've just fulfilled a dream of competing.
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I was really lucky that I had an aunt who was very inspiring to me. She was different than anybody in my family on either side.
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After all of my years in politics, I've learned that sometimes things that are said are true, and other things that are said are less than true.
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The ideal, it seems to me, is to show things happening and allow the reader to decide what they mean.
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'Never,' said my aunt, 'be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you.'
