Charles Dickens Quotes
Things cannot be expected to turn up of themselves. We must in a measure assist to turn them up.
Quotes to Explore
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Everybody has a weakness. Mine is food.
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Whenever I see the news, it's always the same depressing things.
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On my actual 16th birthday, on the actual day, I went home and I had chicken korma and Peshwari naan bread and pilau rice, and that was fantastic.
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In my seaside town, there is a plethora of benches, each one bearing a little brass plate commemorating a deceased occupant. You sit with ghosts.
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I love the hip-hop nation.
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One of the most adventurous things left us is to go to bed. For no one can lay a hand on our dreams.
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Human beings around the world have to be taught to go, 'Tamil equals Tamil civilians first, and the Tamil Tiger is a separate thing.' And both of those groups are different. It's like a square and a circle.
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The baby boom is about to become a patient boom.
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Well, guys are better at mechanical stuff and women are better at emotional stuff.
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I like to stretch my acting muscles.
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The truth is, you have a much richer life if you somehow lead one that you can hold together.
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The lessons this life has planted in my heart pertain more to caring than crops, more to Golden Rule than gold, more to the proper choice than to the popular choice.
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A woman's paradise is under her husband's foot
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Harry can paint but I can't. He has our father's talent while I, on the other hand, am about the biggest idiot on a piece of canvas. I did do a couple of drawings at Eton which were put on display. Teachers thought they were examples of modern art, but in fact, I was just trying to paint a house!
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But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.
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We judge ourselves by our intentions. And others by their actions.
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It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life.
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Musicians are so well covered in the press, it would be great to see more outspoken practitioners of green life.
