Charles Dickens Quotes
I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
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Dad said that he was prouder of me than he'd ever been when I came out.
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I do have friends who make movies, but for the most part, I never really wanted to feel like I was part of an industry.
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In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
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I like someone with a really good and dark sense of humour.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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A long iron rod rocketed straight through the very forefront of Phineas Gage's brain. It's kind of an unusual part of the brain: you can suffer pretty severe injuries to it and often walk away from the injury. It's not a part of the brain that's necessarily vital for your biological self. But it is very important for personality.
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My parents are so cool, so chill, super hip. They know what's up.
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Often you see big companies, big banks who are eager to embrace crushing regulatory burdens because they drive up everyone's costs.
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The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
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I was the ugly duckling until I reached puberty.
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Building capacity dissolves differences. It irons out inequalities.
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We are not a country that subscribes to policing any part of the world. The areas we are comfortable with are capacity building, intelligence sharing, exchange of ships, call on each other's ports, joint training and exercises.
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Any commodity that sees its price going higher will see new mines opening up. When the supply increases, the prices soften. When prices fall, some mines with higher production costs will shut down as they become unviable.
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It's probably an intellectual weakness, but I look at the stars, and I say, 'There's something bigger than us out there.'
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I love pop music, but at the same time, I'm seeking to write whatever I'm organically inclined to.
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A pen is to me as a beak is to a hen.
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Never say 'no' to adventures. Always say 'yes', otherwise you'll lead a very dull life.
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People rarely succeed unless they have fun in what they are doing.
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Nothing reopens the springs of love so fully as absence, and no absence so thoroughly as that which must needs be endless.
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Another occupation might have been better.
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The perpetual charm of Arabia is that the traveler finds his level there simply as a human being; the people's directness, deadly to the sentimental or pedantic, likes the less complicated virtues.
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I could settle down into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.
