Charles Dickens Quotes
No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
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There are no 'political prisoners' as such in Bahrain. People are not arrested because they express their views, we only have criminals.
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I thought 'Pineapple Express' was hilarious.
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I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.
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Volatility may be rising simply because investors must digest more information every day.
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Independent films in this country are in the same position. Miramax and Fine Line are not independent - they're with Disney! Come on. Or they're with Warner Brothers. They're all with somebody.
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This digital world is completely fascinating to me.
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My wife Lorrie actually looked in the dictionary to see what the definition was of heroism because it had been used so much. She found at least one definition is someone who chooses to put themselves at risk to save another.
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You can't take a story and just stretch it out - that does not a novel make.
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I just think you can't shut your life off to just, you know, one thing. You gotta be open-minded. Explore things. Feed your artist.
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Growing up in America, I experienced two puberties. The first opened me up to the possibilities of adulthood. The second reinforced that for someone like me - an immigrant, a minority, an Asian-American - there were limits.
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Assets are cold.
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A grain of devotion is more valuable thank tons of faithlessness.
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The purpose of truly transcendent art is to express something you are not yet, but something that you can become.
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Experience teaches us that thought does not express itself in words, but rather realizes itself in them.
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Art is the desire of a man to express himself, to record the reactions of his personality to the world he lives in.
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I think you have to take these numbers with a grain of salt, ... What this all means is really very hard to determine.
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I would like to express very clearly that the European Union people do respect the countries of this part of the world and don't want to offend anybody.
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I loved him very much - more than I could trust myself to say - more than words had power to express."
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And common is the commonplace, And vacant chaff well meant for grain.
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I just like to express myself in the world around me. And I love writing, but sometimes it feels a little too minute. Sometimes, at the end of the day, there's just not enough colors involved - visually, there are just words on a page.
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Some of my songs I don't do on tour because they don't work well live.
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Modern man-whether in the womb of the masses, or with his workmates, or with his family, or alone-can never for one moment forget that he is living in a world in which he is a means and whose end is not his business.
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No varnish can hide the grain of the wood; and that the more varnish you put on, the more the grain will express itself.
