Charles Dickens Quotes
You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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For me, great music doesn't just have to fall into one category or one genre and I love appreciating all kinds of music.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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I've always thought of fat as just a descriptive word.
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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People with water-borne diseases occupy more than 50% of hospital beds across the world. Does the answer lie in building more hospitals? Really, what is needed is to give them clean water.
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I'm vain enough to think that I've made a successful life. I've had everything I've ever wanted. You can't beat that.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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Every newspaper editor says the heart of the paper is the reporter - which is true - except for the pay!
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You can't get a cup of tea big enough or a book long enough to suit me.
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I was lucky to have my allergist who diagnosed me with CIU.
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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves.
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Pregnancy isn't 'I can eat whatever I want,' because you have to remember you're going to be stuck with a lot of that weight afterwards that you need to try to get off.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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Whenever I hear that I'm on the brink of stardom, I feel like I want to run into a cave.
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The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
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I like a set to be a happy place, where people can feel free to experiment.
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I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle.
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I actually went to study journalism at Northwestern, thinking that would be my Plan B for a career. But then I realized, if I'm going to struggle and make no money, I might as well do what I really want to do.
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By reminding us of human finitude and weakness, religion also enjoins us not to place our ultimate hope in this passing world.
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He had a very clear vision of what he wanted to do artistically, visually, ... I wanted to be part of that vision. It seemed so beautiful and interesting.
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You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.
