David Copperfield Quotes

Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

David Copperfield

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• I was never supposed to make it to Congress. I was a staff person.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Never
  • Person
  • Congress

• Part of the way the work world works is not so much creating a separation between your work and your free time, but creating the illusion of a separation between your work and your free time. Every day is the weekend for me, which means I'm always busy.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• I'm fighting hard; I'm training hard. I'm still walking over people and stepping over people to get where I'm going, and I would really like to give back, especially to my mom, who was there for me when I was a kid.

  

  Nate Diaz
  • People
  • Mom
  • Fighting

• I believe we can, and must, strike a balance between our shared American values of religious liberty and freedom from discrimination. My concerns lie with the possible consequences of politically-driven legislation which claims to promote religious liberty but instead rolls back the legal protections held by LGBT Americans.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Believe
  • American
  • Freedom

• I want to make clothes that people will wear, not styles that will make a big splash on the runway.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • People
  • Want
  • Clothes

• It's important that we start conversations about changing the culture of sexual harassment and discrimination in politics, state capitols, and our larger communities with an acknowledgment of the courage of so many women who have chosen to speak up and speak out.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Up
  • Important
  • Women

• I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • People
  • Love
  • Warm

• Education remains the key to both economic and political empowerment.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Political
  • Education
  • Key

• I'm not trying to change an image, I'm just trying to make sure that the facts match the image. The facts are basically that I'm a builder. I have not dissembled any company nor split up any companies, nor do I ever buy any companies with that intent.

  

  Harold Simmons
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Change

• Christy Turlington is my idol. She really is. She's a gorgeous woman inside and out. I admire her work in the charity field. She's just been able to balance it all - and gracefully, as well.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Work
  • She
  • Woman

• Yeah, I think that a play is a huge commitment, and I think that what it requires of you is a lot, so it really makes you dig in and find things, and it just makes you sharp, 'cause it's live. Really, to me, it separates the men from the boys. I always say it's like the frontlines of acting, when you're on stage.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Men
  • Live
  • Commitment

• I'm the gun guy, a loud guitar Dirty Harry with a ponytail.

  

  Ted Nugent
  • Guy
  • Gun
  • Guitar

• Men need to live and breathe women.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• Lay your sleeping head, my love Human on my faithless arm; Time and fevers burn away Individual beauty from Thoughtful children, and the grave Proves the child ephemeral; But in my arms till break of day Let the living creature lie: Mortal, guilty, but to me The entirely beautiful.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Time
  • Children
  • Beautiful

• On my way here I passed a local cinema and it turns out you were expecting me after all, for the billboards read: The Mummy Returns.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

• Smile, for everyone lacks self-confidence and more than any other one thing a smile reassures them.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • Confidence
  • Smile

• I am a star in the firmament that observe the world, despises the world and consumed in its heat. I am the sea by night in a storm the sea shouting that accumulates new sins and to the ancient makes recompense. I am exiled from your world of pride polite, by pride defrauded, I am the king without crown. I am the passion without words without stones of the hearth, without weapons in the war, is my same force that make me sick.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • War
  • Pride
  • Storm

• I've always seen myself as one of those 'show people.' My earliest memories are wanting and needing to entertain people, like a gypsy traveler who goes from place to place, city to city, performing for audiences and reaching people.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • People
  • City
  • Memories

• If you want to know how old you look, just walk into a French cafe. It's like a public referendum on your face.

  

  Pamela Druckerman

• I thank God for my handicaps. For through them, I have found myself, my work and my God.

  

  Helen Keller
  • Handicaps

• Dreams are illusions, and we can't let go of them because we would be dead.

  

  David Copperfield