Charles Dickens Quotes
To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
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In Paris, AIDS was dismissed as an American phobia until French people started dying; then everyone said, 'Well, you have to die some way or another.' If Americans were hysterical and pragmatic, the French were fatalistic: depressed but determined to keep the party going.
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I became interested in ocean issues in the 1980s when I couldn't take my daughters swimming because of pollution at our local beach. Twenty-five years later, I'm a board member of Oceana, the world's largest international organization dedicated to ocean conservation.
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Most of Google's home technologies have failed to catch on in a major way.
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The only way to defeat evil is by taking advantage of our freedoms.
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The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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Most people sort of enjoy going to work because of the socialisation, a chance to flirt with co-workers and so on, but actually hate the job they do.
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I just do whatever I do, and put it out there without tryin' to cater to anybody. If you like it, you like it.
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You cannot force a state to be demilitarized. Even if a state enters a treaty where it commits to be demilitarized, there's no way to reverse statehood if it violates it.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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Fact is, inventing an innovative business model is often mostly a matter of serendipity.
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I wasn't ever a huge fan of comics. Just not one of those kids, you know?
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I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.
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I take my Bible with me, sometimes two of them, when I travel.
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In a play, you only get one chance, and you have to get it perfect. In a film, you can change and fix it whatever way you want, so really, there's a pretty big difference.
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The F.B.I. is about nuts and bolts. It's all about witnesses and procedure and walking the streets.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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There are parents who are really angry that I decided to portray people who have come into the country illegally as decent human beings.
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For each episode the five of us are all wearing clothes by the same designer. It's a different designer for each episode, but for each one we're all wearing their clothes.
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Our investment style has been given a name - focus investing - which implies ten holdings, not one hundred or four hundred. The idea that it is hard to find good investments, so concentrate in a few, seems to me to be an obvious idea. But 98% of the investment world does not think this way. It's been good for us.
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'Mission' was a mind game. The ideal mission was getting in and getting out without anyone ever knowing we were there.
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A woman's noblest station is retreat.
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There's an audience for everything.
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To bring deserving things down by setting undeserving things up is one of its perverted delights; and there is no playing fast and loose with the truth, in any game, without growing the worse for it.
