Charles Dickens Quotes
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It is hard enough to make a plan for how you are going to spend an evening with somebody else. So to make a plan for how you are going to behave in 25 years seems based on a view of life that is incomprehensible to me.
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I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
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In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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A lasting architecture has to have roots.
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I'm not a babysitter.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I eat vegetarian a lot. I buy only fresh ingredients and cook from scratch - that way, when I feel like snacking and look in my fridge, it's: 'Oh, baby carrots or chocolate soy pudding. Take your pick.'
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Saying that you are advocating on behalf of small business does not grant a license to spend at will on more and more programs without congressional input, oversight, or statutory authority.
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I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
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Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.
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I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.
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I have a farm and I love it there. There's really nothing to do, but even watching the chickens, its fun.
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I believe in incentivizing people. If you can incentivize people in anything, whether it's in politics; in life; in spirituality; in business; just take care of folks. Incentivize them and all of a sudden it's amazing the difference that you'll see.
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Students often have such a lofty idea of what a poem is, and I want them to realize that their own lives are where the poetry comes from. The most important things are to respect the language; to know the classical rules, even if only to break them; and to be prepared to edit, to revise, to shape.
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My uncle and my grandfather both worked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard.
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When it comes to dating, I'm straightforward and traditional with a twist.
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A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
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Professionally he declines and falls, and as a friend he drops into poetry.
