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.
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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.
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Analysis I take to be a scientific procedure. What I do is creative. It doesn't spring from the same part of the mind.
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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.
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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.
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The voters of Colorado deserve honest, straight-talking elected officials.
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
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I have no political aspirations. That's it.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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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.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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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.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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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.
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Literature is a far more ancient and viable thing than any social formation or state. And just as the state interferes in literature, literature has the right to interfere in the affairs of state.
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Monetary policy is most effective when it is coherent, consistent and predictable as possible, while at all times leaving full scope for flexibility and the use of judgment as conditions may require.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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I tend to think that every new song I make is better than the last one.
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And as he spoke of understanding, I looked up and saw the rainbow leap with flames of many colors over me.
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The first trick I bought at Macy's was a little wooden board where a quarter would appear and disappear.
