Charles Dickens Quotes
Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.
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A lovely thing about Christmas is that it's compulsory, like a thunderstorm, and we all go through it together.
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It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I've spent my life navigating through sensitive issues. Not wanting to upset people.
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I never have a plan of what I am going to draw.
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I think mental illness is a slippery slope to talk about these days because people are overly diagnosed, overly prescribed, overly everything.
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I worked in SRK and Salman Khan's films as a child artiste, so Bollywood has always been on my radar.
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Respect the burden.
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When you take a shower in space, you have to press the water onto your body to clean yourself, and then you gotta vacuum it off.
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Very few of the early Italian humanists were really humane.
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I'm not someone who wears shades all the time and ducks into a darkened car in case I'm recognized - that would be absolute misery.
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People are going to go where they get characters that they remember.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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I am not interested in slickness for the sake of slickness.
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Democratic priorities remain clear: to provide a tax cut for working families, to promote policies that produce jobs and economic growth, and to assist millions of our fellow Americans who have lost their jobs through no fault of their own.
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I'm going to go away on vacation, I'm going to try to get away from the phone, away from scripts. I think it's important to sit back and think about what you want.
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We must uphold the fighting of tigers and flies at the same time, resolutely investigating law-breaking cases of leading officials and also earnestly resolving the unhealthy tendencies and corruption problems which happen all around people.
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Remember that politics, colonialism, imperialism and war also originate in the human brain.
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I'm not a very typical singer.
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Genuine love for Jesus manifests itself in obedience to His commandments.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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When we live longer, we must work a little bit longer.
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There's something about human nature which draws us to people who are authentic and makes us want to repel those that aren't.
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Some philosophers tell us that selfishness is at the root of our best loves and affections. Mr. Dombey's young child was, from the beginning, so distinctly important to him as a part of his own greatness, or (which is the same thing) of the greatness of Dombey and Son, that there is no doubt his parental affection might have been easily traced, like many a goodly superstructure of fair fame, to a very low foundation.
