Charles Dickens Quotes
For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
Quotes to Explore
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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The problem is that no ethical system has ever achieved consensus. Ethical systems are completely unlike mathematics or science. This is a source of concern.
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I just can't get used to the idea of being somebody unreal in people's minds. I can't live my life like that. And it's just anathema to being a writer. It's not healthy.
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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I think a woman gets more if she acts feminine.
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In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
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For the most part, I do a lot of my own stunts. On 'The Final Destination,' they kept pulling my stunt woman in, and I'd shoo her away. I'm a black belt in tae kwon do, so I was adamant about doing stuff myself.
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I'm a mom, and my view of public education begins and ends with the fundamental question: Is this good for children?
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Faith is trust in ultimate meaning.
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A system that was originally designed to support the poorest in society is now trapping them in the very condition it was supposed to alleviate.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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All of these mechanisms we have for celebrating are so double-edged. So much sorrow comes out of joy.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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Imagine trying to be a gay actor, a gay anything in modern Russia? Where to be positively oneself, to be affectionate in public with someone you love of the same gender, or to talk of that love in the hearing of anyone under 18, will put you prison?
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The greatest risk is really to take no risk at all. You've got to go out there, jump off the cliff, and take chances.
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Collective wisdom depends on conversation and is most powerfully felt in the silences that arise within those conversations.
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I think what I'm trying to do is create moments of recognition. To try to detonate some kind of feeling or understanding of lived experience.
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Comedy scares me a lot. I feel like it's way harder than drama. I think my safety net is definitely drama, and I would love to kind of be able to be able to push into the comedy world and do something kind of like a Christopher Guest kind of style show. That, to me, is my kind of comedy. Like, Ricky Gervais comedy. That's my kind of thing.
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It is not enough to have a good mind. The main thing is to use it well.
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For not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.
