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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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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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'm a mac and cheese freak. Homemade or from the blue box, I'm not picky!
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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The responsibility of carrying and bringing a new life into this world is one that cannot be taken lightly.
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Thinking withdraws radically and for its own sake from this world and its evidential nature, whereas science profits from a possible withdrawal for the sake of specific results.
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I came into the world weighing one pound, 14 ounces. My family knows what it's like to go through the struggle of not knowing if your baby is going to be OK.
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I am a story-teller, and I look to academic research... for ways of augmenting story-telling.
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Fair treatment of human beings and animals in many different realms strikes a chord with me.
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The New Testament is the very best book that ever was or ever will be known in the world.
