Charles Dickens Quotes
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So what I do, more than play any instrument - I mean, I love to play - but more than that, I write songs. Songs that are about living, about what it's like to be going through all the things that people go through in life.
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It's unresolved conflict in my life that I have a lovely family and a risky job.
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I taught a lot of art history, especially Chinese, Japanese, and Indian. But the painting classes came back. The nudes came back. Not so much the still lifes. So now our department is the worst department, partly because it has the worst facilities.
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I'm trying to break any chain of negative parenting that I might have survived.
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We haven't even begun to see just how many transactions are going to take place online.
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Paris ain't much of a town.
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When I was 3 or 4, I seemed to be bursting with music. They played Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Frank Sinatra in the house, so I learned my vocabulary from song lyrics - I was literally singing before I was talking.
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I fell from the sky. I'm a parachutist, and I missed my mark.
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I'm a person who likes these sort of movies... sad but moving 'art movies' that normally are at a festival and then they go to a small art house theater and disappear.
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I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
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We should encourage governments to be sustained by citizens' taxes - that is, democracies. Democracies will be enduring allies of America.
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Here is the dirty little secret about anti-abortion violence: It works.
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When we start to write for a new record, we never really know what we're doing. We don't come into the room with a set of ideas, but miraculously, a song comes out of it.
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John was the smartest and most amazing comedian I've ever worked with. I think more than teaching me about acting or comedy, he taught me about life and the love of people and respect of people.
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When I was 13 my dream was to play the U.S. Open. Now it's to win it.
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Who, other than a crazy person, does anything besides hang up on a robo-call? Any call, any person, anywhere, under any circumstances.
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Our tradition of political thought had its definite beginning in the teachings of Plato and Aristotle. I believe it came to a no less definite end in the theories of Karl Marx.
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I do love my work, but Daddy likes a little break, too.
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I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.
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I may not drive in 100 runs a year, but I can prevent 100 runs from scoring against us.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.
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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
