David Copperfield Quotes

The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• Like so many families, we were dealing with limited means. We weren't poor at all, but we had some challenging times financially. When my stepdad got laid off... we were really trying to find our footing for a couple of years.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Years

• Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Mind
  • Same
  • Spring

• Lyndon Johnson was a profoundly insecure man who feared dissent and craved reassurance. In 1964 and 1965, Johnson's principal goals were to win the presidency in his own right and to pass his Great Society legislation through Congress.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Great
  • Man
  • Society

• I realized that I'm a soft person. I think I'm sensitive. I wanted very much to be tough and I think movie stars have a certain kind of resilience and toughness to them, but I'm quite a sensitive young lady in some respects.

  

  Rachael Taylor
  • Movie
  • Stars
  • Tough

• The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.

  

  Victor Mitchell
  • Honest
  • Deserve
  • Colorado

• I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Myself
  • Never
  • Thought

• I have no political aspirations. That's it.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Political
  • Aspirations

• If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • School
  • Serious
  • Place

• There are still times in my life where I pull back from being totally honest, and I can't imagine a single straight person who would understand that.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Life
  • Single
  • Understand

• I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.

  

  Raekwon
  • Business
  • History
  • Marketing

• Your initial idea may or may not work, but you have to remember that a failed idea is nothing but a stepping stone to a bigger success.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Work
  • May
  • Remember

• Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • May
  • Thought
  • Better

• Having robbed children of any sense that their Father is in Heaven and that they are His creation, we then launched an experiment in raising them without earthly fathers too. Having neither a Father in heaven or a father in the home, many young men make gangs their families.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Men
  • Children
  • Home

• Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Feel
  • Right
  • Once

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• Oceans are one of the most important things in the world now and that is a national security threat of the United States of America, to be honest with you. That is why seeing the habitat destroyed is so short-sighted by us.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • World
  • Important
  • Why

• People want to tear me down, they were going to knife me anyway.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• You whom the soldiers beat,You who are all but dead,How the gods love youAnd I, alone in the dark,I was promised the light.

  

  Archilochus
  • Light
  • Alone
  • Dark

• I love my job and I love my children. It's really about figuring out your schedules and getting everything down that you need to do and sticking to your plan.

  

  Adriana Lima
  • Children
  • Job

• Don't tell lies, ever. No matter what - not even little white lies.

  

  Margaret Keane
  • Lies
  • Matter

• He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Family
  • She
  • Risk

• Now that I'm on Broadway, it's like NASA engineering with the costumes. I was very grateful for the slightly more high-tech ones in my show, 'Venus in Fur'; our costume designer Anita Yavich is kind of a genius.

  

  Nina Arianda
  • Genius
  • Broadway
  • Costumes

• The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.

  

  David Copperfield