David Copperfield Quotes
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I really honestly can't see myself as a lawyer. It's pretty much safe to say I'll never become one.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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Americans are not saving enough for retirement.
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I don't think we should do anything that should make the people hate the American people more.
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I am really happy to see the number of entrepreneurs in India - not only because of the ideas they have but also because of the passion at which their ideas are put across.
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On what can we now place our hopes of solving the many riddles which still exist as to the origin and composition of cosmic rays? It must be emphasized here above all that to attain really decisive progress greater funds must be made available.
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The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
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I have heard of many tragic cases of walking, talking, normal children who wound up with profound mental disorders after vaccines.
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I am anything but a misogynist - I am quite far to the other side of that.
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This Earth is our only home. Together, we must protect and cherish it.
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There are no heroes in most of my stories. I look at our society with a critical eye and find nothing extraordinary in the people I see.
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These people are fascinated by me, but I haven't done anything.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Do not bury our glorious orthodoxy in the treacherous pit of a spurious conservatism.
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"The River" [song] is also, yes, very metaphorical. Rivers are cleansing. As long as human beings have been on the Earth we've used rivers to cleanse ourselves. And, for me, the lyrics "something in the river," I think is - well, the river is a metaphor for where I was at the time.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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Hey, we've all been to high school We've seen the in-crowds. Most of us have been in the outer crowds, the people who weren't in. Although I was never in, I was selling records and was very happy.
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I suppose that every one of us hopes secretly for immortality; to leave, I mean, a name behind him which will live forever in this world, whatever he may be doing, himself, in the next.
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How peacefully he sleep! Yet may his ever-questing spirit, freed at length from all the frettings of this little world, Wander at will among the uncharted stars. Fairfield his name. Perchance celestial fields disclosing long sought secrets of the past Spread 'neath his enraptured gaze And beasts and men that to his earthly sight were merely bits of stone shall live again to gladden those eager eyes. o let us picture him-enthusiast-scientist-friend- Seeker of truth and light through all eternity!
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I live on broken wittles - and I sleep on the coals.
