Charles Dickens Quotes
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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There are really two kinds of optimism. There's the complacent, Pollyanna optimism that says, 'Don't worry - everything will be just fine,' and that allows one to just lay back and do nothing about the problems around you. Then there's what we call dynamic optimism. That's an optimism based on action.
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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.
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I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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As a child, I remember my dad would sometimes drive me into town with him to play pinball machines together. It's a bittersweet memory but also a favorite.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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I'm a plodder, one foot in front of the other. Life is all about understanding that anything that can go wrong, will go wrong. And it's your ability with how you deal with that adversity that ultimately affects your success.
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Creative people are more prone to depression.
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I know that John Adams has had a very hard time directing French ensembles.
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Fallible characters are more interesting than superheroes in the end.
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Thank god, and now all I have are, twenty one years together, in January and, you know, I, you know I forgot this all about things. And anyway the first place is good thing.
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The good parts about being a public company are increased discipline, increased execution and increased transparency to make sure that you are really building a company for a hundred years.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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We invented the car, and it made it easier for us to crash and die. If I gave a car to my grandfather, he would die in five minutes, while I have grown up slowly to accept speed.
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This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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Reading without thinking will confuse you.Thinking without reading will place you in danger.
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You don't mess with politics and religion. Leave it alone. People get upset at that sometimes.
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When you go and create something, you want to believe in it. If they don't, we're barking up the wrong tree. But when you believe in something and you see other people believing in it too, it just feels like you're doing something right in the world, and that feels good.
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Everything is connected. Concern for the environment thus needs to be joined to a sincere love for our fellow human beings and an unwavering commitment to resolving the problems of society.
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Death is a mighty, universal truth.
