Charles Dickens Quotes
Thus violent deeds live after men upon the earth, and traces of war and bloodshed will survive in mournful shapes long after those who worked the desolation are but atoms of earth themselves.
Quotes to Explore
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I like to read novels where the author seems knowledgeable, like someone you know you could walk calmly next to through a complicated situation, and he or she would be alive to its meaning and ironies. And you wouldn't even have to mention them out loud to each other.
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The two contemporary writers whom I consider as role models are Janet Malcolm and Michael Lewis.
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It's good to be slightly ambitious, but I believe one shouldn't be too calculative. It's good to be on the edge, but I have never followed my mind. I have always followed my heart. And it has yielded the right results.
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Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
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Sometimes they try to put you inside a box, but I look at my filmography and I've been able to do a lot.
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Everything will have a Yelp review. And if you're a worker, there will be like credit scores. There already are to some extent. How reliable are you? How many jobs have you had? Have there been lawsuits filed against you? How many traffic tickets?
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I went for a walk in the Arctic Circle without map or compass. Fortunately, I was only lost for hours, not days.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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Justice is indivisible. You can't decide who gets civil rights and who doesn't.
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Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction.
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They [the Templars] had read Avicenna, and they were not ignorant, like the Europeans. How could you live alongside a tolerant, mystical, libertine culture for two centuries without succumbing to its allure, particularly when you compared it to Western culture, which was crude, vulgar, barbaric, and Germanic?
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I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.
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If I had been with all the women that I was said to have been with, I wouldn't have had the time to shoot a single movie!
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All flesh is grass. and all its glory fades Like the fair flower dishevell'd in the wind; Riches have wings, and grandeur is a dream; The man we celebrate must find a tomb, And we that worship him, ignoble graves.
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When you start having lunch and actually eating, it's already over.
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As a coach, I want players to challenge me, to question me and ask why we're doing a certain thing, so they feel that they're taking ownership.
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Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself.
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There is no such thing in America as an independent press. I am paid for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with.
