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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I got obsessed with classical music, I got obsessed with Chopin, with playing the piano.
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Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.
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Science herself consults her heart when she lays it down that the infinite ascertainment of fact and correction of false belief are the supreme goods for man.
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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.
