Charles Dickens Quotes
May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
Quotes to Explore
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In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
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Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along.
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This is a strange game.
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Virtually everything that gets printed about me is wrong anyway, so it doesn't really matter what you say.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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I am blessed to have worked in big-budget films at an early stage of my career.
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I think with 'Skinwalkers,' the success of it spoke for itself. Meaning a lot of people wanted to see something new on television.
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I love a mask. It's why I've got a thing about good writing. When you're acting, you're going into someone else's work. You're behind his words; it's not you.
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Nobody on this earth has the right to tell anyone that their love for another human being is morally wrong.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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Surrealism is not a poetry but a poetics, and even more, and more decisively, a world vision.
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From a population point of view, it's actually very important that as few people as possible get the flu. People getting the flu is not a private matter. The risk for healthy people is really about your friends and neighbors and fellow travelers.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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Foreign universities have two aspects - content and brand. If we focus on the brand, we could lose out on the content. The idea is to focus on the content.
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We all have very personal relationships to what happened on 9/11 and the events after tracking Osama bin Laden. Nobody can escape from the influence of that.
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The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
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I do think grand gestures are a hit and miss, especially for girls.
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I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
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When I was 15, if anything, I thought I was going to be a Delta bluesman, which is so ridiculous.
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I don't think there will ever be a permanent truce, but I believe the media needs to be more careful and be willing to count to 10 before rushing on the air or into print.
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The sun, which passeth through pollutions and itself remains as pure as before.
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I'm not one of those people who have to try and remember what they told people, because I always tell the truth. That should count for something, right?
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May I tell you why it seems to me a good thing for us to remember wrong that has been done us? That we may forgive it.
