Charles Dickens Quotes
The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I think same sex couples should be able to get married.
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While children are struggling to be unique, the world around them is trying all means to make them look like everybody else.
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You only lie to two people in your life, your girlfriend and the police.
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Only four secretaries of defense served longer than Robert M. Gates. Many others were as dedicated; many sacrificed a great deal. Alone among them all, however, Mr. Gates had the task of turning around two wars that the U.S. was losing.
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And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.
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My father was a construction worker most of his life. My mother, when she came from Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico, to the United States, never had a chance to go to college either and became a clerical worker. But they did nothing but build this country.
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Close friends consider me a literary snob.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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If I don't eat something after I work out, I get shaky and cranky - not a good combination when you're a television host.
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Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.
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Islam is fixed, stable, ordered and disciplined, and so are Muslims.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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It became obvious in 1957 that I was endangering my health by carrying so much weight.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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I never listened to the Grateful Dead as a teen; the only exposure I got was what came through the walls when my sister was listening to them.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either.
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Your real life is in the here and now. Once you figure out what kinds of experiences cause you to feel certain ways, you can change either the experiences, or when that's not possible, change your responses to them.
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When the whole world has their eyes on you, if you say something that doesn't truly come from your spirit and your soul, or if you wear something that doesn't come from your spirit and your soul, it's an injustice to your position. And so, I'm really myself every single day and I do it because I know my fans would want me to.
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I come personally from a broken family, divorced very early in my childhood, a family with its own share of troubles, so I think that was very influential in both me believing that someday I would consistently devote myself to my own family that I created, but I think it also really affects my view of the world.
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Everyone knows English is my second language and my vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish, and because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself.
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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
