David Copperfield Quotes
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
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I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
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I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.
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I don't want to be known as an item dancer. I want to be known as an actress only.
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May Heaven be propitious, and smile on the cause of my country.
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There are four ways, and only four ways, in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do, how we look, what we say, and how we say it.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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You always hear 'black Republican,' but you never hear 'white Democrat.' We've got to get beyond the labels and stereotypes. Other people have hang-ups about it. I don't.
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Around the world, climate change is an existential threat - but if we harness the opportunities inherent in addressing climate change, we can reap enormous economic benefits.
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Music is about the performance.
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I don't wear plaid shirts.
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I'm a dilettante. My governing word is 'curiosity.'
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The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.
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My father was very clear; I had to have an ordinary upbringing. I was put to work as a lowly-paid trainee after college. I didn't like it at the time, but I can't help but feel that that was probably the best thing for me.
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I was at 260 at Tennessee because I was playing three-technique.
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My children receive education that greatly emphasizes the fact they are part of a human group that has tradition, collective memory, and a state. I am a great believer in the need for Israel to be a Jewish state. I certainly believe my children will pass that on to their children.
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The feeling remains that God is on the journey, too.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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At times it is folly to hasten at other times, to delay. The wise do everything in its proper time.
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You are not saved by the plan of salvation. You are saved by the man of salvation.
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I didn't even know I could sing or write songs. I didn't have that education. But people shouldn't think they can look down on someone like me, because I've had the same success as others, sold the same amount of records, if not more. They shouldn't think that because I'm just from 'The X Factor,' I'm not credible or respected as much.
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We justify ourselves when we should judge ourselves. If we learned humility, it might spare us the humiliation.
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Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.
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There are too many fawning entertainment shows out there and not one of them is making fun of it all.
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Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
