Charles Dickens Quotes
It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
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Far worst of all, the fever had settled in Mary's eyes, and Mary was blind.
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I don't like the blame game, though.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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There are roles out there and women out there that are fascinating to me, and there are things in our culture that I see that I want to express. It's my passion to express that.
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I will say this: I think 'Big Brother' is the biggest snooze known to mankind.
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The single most important thing that I feel responsible for is that the company cherishes the work.
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I don't think that I ever believed that poetry would be a career. I have always thought of poems as something more private than professional... I would never introduce myself as a poet. I will always have some other thing that I am.
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I'm not sensitive, I'm not a weepy person.
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I think people live in the past and tend to look that way, because they drop off when they're happiest and most successful.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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I'm committed to the goal of Senate Bill 324, and that is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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When I was a teenager, the number one book I was most obsessed with was 'Gone with the Wind.'
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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So I'm truly an actor who sings, and not a singer who acts.
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I'm cool with myself. If I can't have the body of Angie Bassett, so be it.
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I always try to remain aware that what affects others affects me, too.
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War triggers unforeseeable military dynamics and sets off massive political shocks, creating new problems as well as new opportunities.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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Back in the '70s - I remember the '70s: we were told there was global cooling. And everyone was told global cooling was a really big problem. And then that faded.
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You want 100% and 100% to make 200, instead of 50 and 50 making 100.
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(On being censored): 'I didn’t go up and say the Pope’s a faggot!....Which is what he is, but I didn’t say that!'
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Why should there be the method of science? There is not just one way to build a house, or even to grow tomatoes. We should not expect something as motley as the growth of knowledge to be strapped to one methodology.
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Bad acting comes in many bags, various odors. It can be performed by cardboard refugees from an Ed Wood movie, reciting their dialogue off an eye chart, or by hopped-up pros looking to punch a hole through the fourth wall from pure ballistic force of personality, like Joe Pesci in a bad mood. I can respect bad acting that owns its own style.
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It is well for a man to respect his own vocation whatever it is and to think himself bound to uphold it and to claim for it the respect it deserves.
