Charles Dickens Quotes

Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

Charles Dickens

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• I have never said that people 'should' engage in armed attacks on the United States, but that such attacks are a natural and unavoidable consequence of unlawful U.S. policy.

  

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• My dad was in the Army, so what was happening internationally and nationally was always important to my family.

  

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• Where in the Constitution does it say that because we don't like a foreign country's leader, we should go in and topple the dictator?

  

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• You don't see a lot of black rock stars. The music industry tends to be segregated stylistically. It's hard for a black artist to cross over to rock music.

  

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• All of the guys I know from Jersey held onto this feeling of, 'We're always just working.'

  

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• You cannot purchase people’s consent through killing them.

  

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• Elegance is a small price to pay for enlightenment, and I was glad to pay it.

  

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• It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally.

  

  J. R. R. Tolkien
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• A lot of songs I sang to crowds to get their reaction. That's how I knew they'd hit.

  

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• It is true that all mothers do things differently from their own mothers, but they don't necessarily do them better.

  

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• In a way, making Martin Ellingham the way he is was a corrective exercise for my acting - to keep a bit still and show a little control. I do like it - it's like having an instrument that you can play and that you can pick up and enjoy playing.

  

  Martin Clunes
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• Because the Bush Administration will set no timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, both chambers of Congress acted to make sure our troops will not be left in Iraq indefinitely.

  

  Jan Schakowsky

• I love the sound of voices singing together, congregational singing, anything like gospel, or folk, or sea shanties. I spent quite a bit of time in choirs growing up, and in the world-touring music group, Anuna. It's a sound with very rich texture, voices singing together.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
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• I think, on any given day, somebody could help out a homeless person and cuss out somebody that cut them off in traffic, and I think that everybody has that inside them: it's just how you live that balance - so I think everybody is 'Wretched and Divine.'

  

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• I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet.

  

  Kenneth Branagh
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• We take it for granted that because our shelves and supermarkets are heaving with food that there are no problems with food security. But we have limited land in the U.K., and climate disruption and population growth are putting pressure on food supply.

  

  Mark Walport
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• Hollywood has lost touch with their audience a long time ago.

  

  John Ratzenberger
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• Sneezing absorbs all the functions of the soul just as much as the [sexual] act, but we do not draw from it the same conclusions against the greatness of man, because it is involuntary; although we bring it about, we do so involuntarily. It is not for the sake of the thing in itself but for another end, and is therefore not a sign of man's weakness, or his subjection to this act.

  

  Blaise Pascal
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• I have simplified my politics into an utter detestation of all existing governments; and, as it is the shortest and most agreeable and summary feeling imaginable, the first moment of an universal republic would convert me into an advocate for single and uncontradicted despotism. The fact is, riches are power, and poverty is slavery all over the earth, and one sort of establishment is no better, nor worse, for a people than another.

  

  Lord Byron
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  • Despotism

• The artwork for the record is kind of an homage to that. It's a collage, which rhymes with homage, I just realized. It's an homage to this kind of almost like a teenager's idea of what the future might look like, if he were using a Xerox machine and cut-and-pasting it together. Which is exactly what we did to come up with the artwork.

  

  Michael Stipe R.E.M.
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• Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Sins
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• The longer I live the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Feel
  • Fathers
  • Longer

• Detestation of the high is the involuntary homage of the low.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Homage
  • Involuntary
  • Detestation