Charles Dickens Quotes
... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.Charles Dickens
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The ability of discerning high quality unavoidably implies the ability of identifying shortcomings.
Edsger Dijkstra -
I love to drive. My present to myself from 'The Tudors' was a red Mazda MX5 hard-top convertible. I loved that car, and also what she represented - my first success.
Natalie Dormer -
Fame is very isolating. It changes your reality.
T. J. Miller -
Whatever market a company might dominate today, it is likely to change substantially over the next ten years. There's no such thing as 'sustaining' leadership; it must be reinvented again and again.
Gary Hamel -
The nation guarantees the nurture, education, and comfortable maintenance of every citizen from the cradle to the grave.
Edward Bellamy -
It would be difficult, perhaps, to find the annals of a nation less stained with crimes than those of the Armenians, whose virtues have been those of peace, and their vices those of compulsion. But whatever may have been their destiny - and it has been bitter - whatever it may be in future, their country must ever be one of the most interesting on the globe.
Lord Byron
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No matter what, I'm in a very small club. There are very few women who have directed studio-level commercial films - very few.
Elizabeth Banks -
I have to do so many scenes cooking that I wanted to learn how to chop like I know what I'm doing and do certain things around the kitchen that look right.
Kevin Dillon -
I don't know the vast majority of you personally, and it may sound kind of corny, but I really feel as if we've become friends through the years. And you've been with me during a lot of good times and some very difficult ones. I can't tell you how grateful I am.
Katie Couric -
All the world wondered as they witnessed... a people lift themselves from humiliation to the greatest pride.
Corazon Aquino -
The only thing you can do to make catfish edible is fry them.
Blake Shelton -
He touch'd the tender stops of various quills,With eager thought warbling his Doric lay.
John Milton
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Dave was committed to making it a truly memorable weekend in the sense that he would remember nothing whatsoever about it. 'It’s all about moderation,' he said, 'Everything in moderation. Even moderation itself. From this it follows that you must from time to time, have excess. And this is going to be one of those occasions.' (p. 152).
Geoff Dyer -
I am terribly saddened to learn of the passing of Harry Dalton. He was one of the great general managers of our generation. I was fortunate to have him serve as general manager of the Milwaukee Brewers from 1978 through 1991.
Bud Selig -
We must keep ourselves in touch, not with theories, but with people. We must never get out of touch with them if we are going to use the Word of God skillfully amongst them and if the Holy Spirit is to apply the Word of God through us.
Oswald Chambers -
My first date was with a girl named Cessi. We'd had a beautiful relationship over the phone all summer long. Then she came home and we met to go out for the first time to the movies. When I saw her I was petrified. I couldn't even look her in the eye to talk to her.
Leonardo DiCaprio -
I think it's very easy to get caught up and think that how many hits you get in a magazine because you were seen out somewhere has anything to do with a director's opinion of you, and whether they could use you or not.
Lisa Kudrow -
My interactions with Sorkin were agonisingly weird. He is by far the weirdest person I have ever met. I had dinner with him and a few hours before I got an e-mail from his assistant saying, 'Sean, this does not need to be a long conversation. Aaron is only going to use it to win your trust.'
Sean Parker
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The way the play was written originally is that in the end Henry Higgins and Eliza separate because they aren't compatible because of Eliza's feminist views. They wanted a happier ending for the musical.
Luke Ford -
I think of someone like Mariah Carey as a singer.
Graham Coxon Blur -
... still his philanthropy was of that gunpowderous sort that the difference between it and animosity was hard to determine.
Charles Dickens