Charles Dickens Quotes
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
Quotes to Explore
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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I need a hobby, and I don't want it to be basketball. I want it to be music. So to get away from music, I do other music.
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I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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Custom turns everything upside down. Give it time, and what can resist its hardening effect? What does not yield to use? How many find that the bitterness they had formerly dreaded has, unfortunately, through use alone, turned to sweetness?
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What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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I had seen some films made about the underground music world in Tehran, and most of them were short documentaries about 30 or 40 minutes long. And I always wondered why they weren't publicized more. Really, their only flaw was they were short documentaries.
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I am a self-critical perfectionist.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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My work on human capital began with an effort to calculate both private and social rates of return to men, women, blacks, and other groups from investments in different levels of education.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.
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A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.
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My 2020 Vision for India is to transform it into a developed nation. That cannot be abstract; it is a lifeline.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.
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Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.
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I took about four or five years of French in high school, but I definitely don't speak French as well as I thought I did then.
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A person with half volition goes backwards and forwards, but makes no progress on even the smoothest of roads.
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I work hard, I make my own living and I love it. I like having financial independence.
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I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
