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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Satanism represents opposition to hypocrisy, every human being feels rage, every human being feels anger, and we feel it is natural to express that anger in a healthy way.
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I live in New York now, and miss France quite a bit. Of course, the reality of living in a small village in the south of France was very different than the fantasy I had of living in France. Over the years I spent there, that fantasy was worn away and I found a more realistic version of France than the one I began with. I wouldn't say the spell ever goes away, but transforms. Now that I understand French culture more intimately, and speak fluent French, I have a different, more solid, relationship to the country.
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Too many people have died so unnecessarily; AIDS is completely preventable, yet it's killing more kids in South Africa then everything else, and that's just not how it should be.
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I'm starting to think I'll probably never have a girlfriend, which would be okay too. On those few occasions when a girl has actually flirted with me, tipped her head sideways and laughed at some stupid remark, all it did was make me angry. It seemed like she was playing a game with idiotic rules. First you laugh, then you tell a pretty lie, then you stick your tongue in each other's mouths, then you say something really mean and hurtful to each other, then you go off to find somebody else who wants to play the game. This is an activity for intelligent people? I think not.
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The fight against Jewish world Bolshevization requires a clear attitude toward Soviet Russia. You cannot drive out the Devil with Beelzebub.
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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.
