Charles Dickens Quotes
Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.
Quotes to Explore
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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What sets 'Some Nights' apart from anything we've ever done is the hip-hop influence. Not so much the actual sound of hip-hop, but more the vibrato and the artistry that comes with it. Right now, the artists that seem to be pushing to be the greatest artists and are trying to change the world are hip-hop artists.
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Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
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As you begin to realize that every different type of music, everybody's individual music, has its own rhythm, life, language and heritage, you realize how life changes, and you learn how to be more open and adaptive to what is around us.
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Because of where I come from, I never thought I'd see in my life a black candidate running for President.
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Everything I have experienced in my life helps form who I am today, and I would not change or forget any of it.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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The storm came. Lives were washed away. Ancient pains resurfaced. Now it is time for a sea of change.
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Life will end in death and unhappiness, but we do it anyway.
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Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I don't dream at night; life has given me the stuff I need to be able to dream during the day. I'm very lucky.
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It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.
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You can ask anyone who knows me, I've never said a racist or prejudiced thing in my life.
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I cry a lot when I feel empathy. I can feel heartbroken by life, and I cry quite easily, sometimes for no reason. It's healthy, I think.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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'The Wire' really drew on a lot of real-life situations and real-life organizations - it created fiction to make a social statement about reality.
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I think it would be very difficult to maintain one kind of art or whatever for your whole life. I think it's unrealistic.
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I can't believe where life has taken me.
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There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.
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Coming back to theatre is something I'm keen to do for the rest of my life. It recharges my batteries, so to speak.
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Look round and round upon this bare bleak plain, and see even here, upon a winter's day, how beautiful the shadows are! Alas! It is the nature of their kind to be so. The loveliest things in life... are but shadows; and they come and go, and change and fade away, as rapidly as these.
