David Copperfield Quotes
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Actually, I didn't like Dartmouth very much, but the whole theater scene I really liked.
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I don't hurt or want for visibility, but people seem to forget pretty easily.
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Artists are like everybody else.
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I've fought with everyone . And now I have become so headstrong that I only do what I want.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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To discover the true principles of Morality, men have no need of theology, of revelation, or of gods: They have need only of common sense.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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I have never made a game that wasn't explicitly about empowering players to tell their own story.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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Studies have proven that early childhood education returns to society as much as $12 for every dollar invested. Our goal is to identify the most important development opportunities for children five years and younger, providing insight to transform early childhood education from a social policy issue into an economic imperative.
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Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.
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With a genre like film noir, everyone has these assumptions and expectations. And once all of those things are in place, that's when you can really start to twist it about and mess around with it.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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Delusional pain hurts just as much as pain from actual trauma. So what if it's all in your head?
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I don't know about happy endings, because I don't think, eventually, anything is happy. You feel a bout of happiness with good news. Five minutes later, there could be a traffic jam or a phone call from an irritating relative or a weird thought, or it could be a tweet that annoys you, and your emotion will flip immediately.
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In thousands of years there has been no advance in public morals, in philosophy, in religion or in politics, but the advance in business has been the greatest miracle the world has ever known.
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It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
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Fear can keep you alive. The trick is not to let it overwhelm you. Not to let it rule you. If you’re afraid, that’s the universe trying to tell you something. Get away. Don’t run; don’t panic. Just pick up and walk out, calm as you please. Panic makes you stupid.
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I love college football and I love pro football. This is how fair-weathered I am. I used to be a Giants fan, but my son who's turning 12 has really gotten into football, and he likes the Jets, so I totally jumped ships so we can root for the same team.
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Tak Fujimoto and I, when we started getting enough of a budget where we could afford the right lenses - 'cause we started out doing low-budget pictures together - we started experimenting with this subjective camera thing. And we kind of fell in love with the idea of using that as our close-up.
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Marriage is like a formality for me.
