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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I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
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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 saw myself as a writer, a novelist, even though I was living the life of a mother and housewife. Writing was - and is - what I do.
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I loved DreamWorks and Pixar, and I still love kids' films.
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Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.
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The pandemic of AIDS is a gender-based disease.
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Livable neighborhoods with a vibrant street life will stimulate our economic life as well.
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The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.
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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
