Charles Dickens Quotes
I find my breath gets short, but it seldom gets longer as a man gets older. I take it as it comes, and make the most of it. That's the best way, ain't it?
Quotes to Explore
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So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground.
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I'm a private person. I'm shy about people knowing things.
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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
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I was booed at the premiere of 'Miss Julie,' a remarkably stimulating experience.
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There's a humble beauty about listening to period instruments that I like.
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The only investable idea I have real confidence in is farming and forestry. My family owns some forest, and now we're closing on a farm. Make the farming more sustainable and the forestry more sustainable, and everyone benefits.
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I prefer a man who will burn the flag and then wrap himself in the Constitution to a man who will burn the Constitution and then wrap himself in the flag.
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The social science on the impact of desegregation is clear. Researchers have consistently found that students in integrated schools - irrespective of ethnicity, race, or social class - are more likely to make academic gains in mathematics, reading, and often science than they are in segregated ones.
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I've done a lot of albums and I kinda know when I'm onto something that was inspirational for me to record and create, and this was one of those projects where I really enjoyed making the album.
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If people tell you it's impossible, it's an even better reason to want to do it. People have a tendency to see the problem rather than the final result. If you treat the problems as possibilities, life will start to dance with you in the most amazing ways.
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I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.
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In our system of democracy, our government works on a system of checks and balances. Instead of stripping power from the courts, I believe we should follow the process prescribed in our Constitution - consideration of a Constitutional amendment.
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What theatre started to look at much earlier than any other form was the internal operations of ordinary people, sometimes using mythic models in order to tell the story.
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When I first concluded to print the book, I made an honest effort to construct it in the third person.
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Does anything really matter? We all end up in the same place. All that's left is our Wikipedia entry.
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The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become.
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This is going to sound a bit weird because she's a lot older than I am, but I've got a thing for Meryl Streep.
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My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.
