Charles Dickens Quotes
A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
Quotes to Explore
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No one can occupy your generosity except you. Who can occupy your patience when impatience roars through you? Who except you can choose not to act with judgment when all of your thoughts are judgmental? Your life is yours to live, no matter how you choose to live it. When you do not think about how you intend to live it, it lives you.
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Medical professionals, not insurance company bureaucrats, should be making health care decisions.
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The horror genre is my personal favorite. But then again, I was the kid who read coroner books for fun.
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I was just making music in my bedroom. I never wanted to be onstage.
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I am neither going to Bollywood nor joining politics.
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One thing a lot of people don't know about Fun. was that the three of us all came from 10 years of touring with our own projects. That's how we met, actually.
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ABBA: The Movie; I got a lot of grief for working on that.
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The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the origins of language, the continuity of the species, the taproot of our humanity, our singularity, and art itself.
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If people are telling you a story about themselves, they gradually map their own local territories and know themselves by them.
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The Amex has a long, often troubled, sometimes glorious history.
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There is a misconception that young Muslim women are oppressed. That simply isn't the case. I choose to dress modestly and choose to cover my hair with a hijab; not all Muslim women make that choice, and that's okay. We are all different!
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There's a reason people use CGI: it's cheaper and faster. I hate that.
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I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.
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Til I was 10 years, I didn't know I had only two siblings. I always thought I had 10 and that they were all my family.
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We began intercepting Japanese radio transmissions, which indicated the two forces were very close to each other. We found out later that we were moving in opposite directions and passed each other by 32 miles.
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'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
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My ritual is cooking. I find it therapeutic. It comes naturally to me. I can read a recipe and won't have to look at it again.
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In North America, more than half of all children travel to school by bus. We need a similar programme in London.
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Nothing comes without hard work. I've been taught that by many people growing up.
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My voice is who I am, who I was when I was 3, and who I am going to be when I am 90 years old. When I hit the stage and people do not know who I am, they automatically assume, before I open my mouth, I am going to sing a Bob Marley song!
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If you look at the beginning of this country, when the pilgrims came to this country, the first year they had a communistic experiment. They said, 'OK, we're going to take the land, we're going to work the land together and share in the fruits of our labor.' They almost starved to death. Almost half of them died that first year.
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Sternly, remorselessly, fate guides each of us; only at the beginning, when we're absorbed in details, in all sorts of nonsense, in ourselves, are we unaware of its harsh hand.
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A man is lucky if he is the first love of a woman. A woman is lucky if she is the last love of a man.
