Charles Dickens Quotes
Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
Quotes to Explore
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I believe that you can always learn from observation.
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My mother certainly never altered the topics of her conversation based on children being present.
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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I'm addicted to 'Scandal.' Joe Morton is the devil, and I love him. I am addicted to 'Boardwalk Empire.' Jeffrey Wright is the devil, and I love him.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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I think I owe it to myself to put my best effort forward and prove how good I can be.
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If I ever have sex with someone I might be able to develop a sense of humor.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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I have to clean my room and unload the dishwasher, wash the pans, and feed the dogs.
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If you have drive and energy, everything is possible.
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I'm more offended when someone's killed on television than when there's something that's sensuous or sexual. So what?
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As I began to take risks, leaving my very comfortable and secure job and taking this first leap into fashion, every subsequent risk became easier to take because I began to see the kind of opportunity and excitement that risk-taking offered.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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Be honest, be nice, be a flower not a weed.
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Acting alone in a world that's alive in political stirring is to condemn oneself to isolation and probably protracted warfare of the kind that can be dissipating.
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No, Queer Eye has a book coming out before mine, in the Spring of 2004, in which each of us has a section and we do a brief overview of our subject area.
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Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.
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Rich folks may ride on camels, but it ain't so easy for 'em to see out of a needle's eye.
