Charles Dickens Quotes
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm a religious man. I pray for Milky Way.
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To me, it's weird when people review improv at all.
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I'm over the hill, maybe even the whole mountain range, but I don't see it that way even one little bit.
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I adore recipes that make use of one cut of meat or a whole animal to create a complex dish, loaded with flavour.
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I hate writing. I almost never write. I write against deadlines. And when I'm teaching, I'm focused on that.
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Playing for India has been an honour and I want to continue doing that. I don't know anything else to do other than cricket. I want to play as long as I can,
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Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.
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Ethics in government has always been important to me.
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I'll grab coffee with my wife and daughter and then am in the office around 9 or 10. From there, I usually have about 8 hours of meetings.
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We're in such a volatile climate right now politically. I think they didn't want Assassins to not succeed due to popular opinion and politics, versus on its own merits. I can respect that.
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Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present, which seldom happens to us.
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I'm aware of the fact that I don't know how to do it all, but I want for my blog to be a place where people can come to ask questions so that I can look for the answers for them. That's the kind of work that I did for my books, and I want to transition that to my blog for more of a community feel.
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I really don't know that I'm iconic. I don't even know that people think I'm cool.
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I knew deep down that I was going to have my little girl, even if I had to raise her on my own, which is what I did.
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I'm very influenced by the circus. A lot of the dreams that I have, I'm in the circus.
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I only watch MSNBC for the news.
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We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities.
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It's only a hunting spider, it won't hurt you." -Myrnin "So not the point!" -Claire "Oh, pish. It's just another living creature. Nothing to be frightened of, if handled properly. I think I'll call him Bob. Bob the spider." -Myrnin "You're insane." -Claire
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Some pretences daunt and discourage us, while others raise us to a brisk assurance.
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Every true, eternal problem is an equally true, eternal fault; every answer an atonement, every realisation an improvement.
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Mom-shaming drives me crazy.
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Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art.
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You must first be willing to fail — and you must have the courage to go for it anyway.
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself.
