Charles Dickens Quotes
And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
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It is up to African leaders to show their will and political courage in order to assure that this new pan-African institution becomes an efficient instrument and not a place for endless discussions.
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I haven't got a waist. I've just got a sort of place, a bit like an unmarked level crossing.
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The approach of death certainly concentrates the mind.
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I'm not a fan of people romanticizing their loved ones in death.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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After I was assaulted in Egypt, I learned fear. I've just never been so scared in my life. I've never been so close to death.
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The death of chief justice Rehnquist and the president's nomination of John Roberts raises the stakes for the court and the American people exponentially.
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Death in its natural state can be very beautiful. When you think about a body that's died of natural causes - family taking care of it - all of that is very beautiful.
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Have an earnestness for death and you will have life.
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I cannot imagine a more enjoyable place to work than in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology where I work.
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Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
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But who cares? I can honestly look back and realize that everything happened for a reason. Everything that fell apart has fallen back into place beautifully and magically.
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When elites see a homeless person in the gutter, they assume he's saving a parking place.
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You can always tell an actor by the bored look in their eye whenever someone else is talking.
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Parenthood, like death, is an event for which it is nearly impossible to be prepared. It brings you into a new relationship with the fact of your own existence, a relationship in which one may be rendered helpless.
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I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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At the New York Athletic Club they serve amazing food. People go there, get healthy, and then eat themselves to death - which is, I suppose, the right way to do it.
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Death is for a long time. Those of shallow thought say that it is forever. There is, at least, a long night of it. There is the forgetfulness and the loss of identity. The spirit, even as the body, is unstrung and burst and scattered. One goes down to death, and it leaves a mark on one forever.
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I find that I take a great deal of pleasure knowing I get up people's noses to some degree.
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I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
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A governor can be a very good friend to people. A governor can be a formidable force.
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Non-cooperation is a nation's determination to improve.
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And I am bored to death with it. Bored to death with this place, bored to death with my life, bored to death with myself.
