Charles Dickens Quotes
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Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.
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This opinion, however, is held by most, that the devil was an angel, and that, having become an apostate, he induced as many of the angels as possible to fall away with himself, and these up to the present time are called his angels.
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You can't solve a dignity problem with military force.
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I read a lot of comic books and any kind of thing I could find. One day, a teacher found me. She grabbed my comic book and tore it up. I was really upset, but then she brought in a pile of books from her own library. That was the best thing that ever happened to me.
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When we came to Iraq, we didn't understand the complexity - what it meant for a society to live under a brutal dictatorship with ethnic and sectarian divisions. When we first got here, we made a lot of mistakes. We were like a blind man, trying to do the right thing but breaking a lot of things.
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Some scientists claim - although these claims are contentious - that they can form deadly isomers with simple X-rays and that hafnium can multiply the power of these X-rays to an astounding degree, converting them into gamma rays up to 250 times more potent than the X-rays.
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Black Rock gives us all a chance to heal, to become ourselves.
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It's interesting to see what people are saying about me. I like keep up with the latest rumors! A while back there was a rumor that I was going to do a film with Demi Moore about the takeover of Commodore computers!
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For the purposes of the play, it was perfect to be able to use that and the stresses and strains that there were. At the end of the play, the mother realizes the terrible things she had done.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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When I'm creating a character, I don't see it so much as playing someone else as just playing a specific part of myself under certain circumstances.
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In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.
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There are wonderful composers and librettists out there. It's the lack of creative producers that is troubling.
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Indian food is a luxury on tour.
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I, of course, was born as if I was a movie star in my head. Even though I had nothing, in my head I was always royalty. My mother always said, 'I don't know where you came from'. I didn't have their value system. And I always lived beyond my means.
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A Syrian war would consume Trump's presidency.
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Becoming a mother has been the best experience of my life, and I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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When you play a character, there's always a part of you. Like, you always bring out a side of you when you do another character.
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I do not know why I chose one subject rather than another unless I believe them to be the best synthesis of my inner experience.
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Just as playgrounds didn't even make the priority list of most of those responding to Katrina, they all too often slip off the radar of those building our schools, designing our neighborhoods, and drafting government budgets.
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These creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story - a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.
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The wise man must be wise before, not after, the event.
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Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.
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I don't care whether I am a Minx or a Sphinx.
