Charles Dickens Quotes
Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!
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I was, like, in a rap gang. I loved rap, and it was all around me.
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Museums are managers of consciousness. They give us an interpretation of history, of how to view the world and locate ourselves in it. They are, if you want to put it in positive terms, great educational institutions. If you want to put it in negative terms, they are propaganda machines.
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The real truths of life are never entirely new to you or to anybody because there is a level deep down within you where you already know all the things, all those spiritual truths that you read or hear, and then recognize them. I say 'recognize' because you're not... it's not new.
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I have a problem with the way the House is run. I believe that a few people at the top of a pyramid of power have controlled this place for a long time.
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I do have a fantasy piece of technology that would do my food shopping for me, and if you wanted to, you could probably employ a butler or a maid. But I'd like to have a fridge that restocks itself. I don't know what you'd call that - an automatic restocking pantry?
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How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!
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Never since Drake and Raleigh wonOur freedom of the seas,Have sons of Britain dared and doneMore valiantly than these.
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Working with Olivia Colman has probably been the highlight of my career so far.
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I've always been passionate about acting. I haven't been passionate about being famous.
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As long as we're winning football games, I'm happy.
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Computer programming is pretty much guaranteed income. I'm good at it, and I like it.
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One of the things I respected about Connors was that one second he would be spewing a four-letter word, the next second he would do something that had people falling off the aisles. Yet he never seemed to lose his concentration.
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I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
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I gave up rock 'n' roll for the rock of ages! I used to be a glaring homosexual until God changed me!
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What higher approval could a person enjoy than to know that what he or she has done is pleasing to God?
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The devil smiles when we are up to our ears in work, but he trembles when we pray.
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The real reason for health claims is well established: health claims sell food products.
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What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade in Indian slaves as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.
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Remember anything you want that's valuable requires you to break through short-term pain in order to gain long-term pleasure.
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Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
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I don't think there are too many rock bands in history that can look at the beginning and middle and ending of themselves and see what I see when I think of Soundgarden. I think from the beginning through the middle and the end it was such a perfect ride and such a perfect legacy to leave.
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Let me see you ride a donkey over my green again, and as sure as you have a head upon your shoulders, I'll knock your bonnet off, and tread upon it!
