Charles Dickens Quotes
Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
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I had nearly finished school because I was making effort not that bad on that. But there was a law in Germany after the war. You could not make your final examination before 18, so lots of people who were late because of the way had to do it first.
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River Phoenix and I were friends for nine years, and I watched him grow and mature, and I also saw him struggle. I watched him deal with the whole up and down aspects of Hollywood and saw him bounce back, so when he passed away, it was such an enormous shock.
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One can never know enough. The unknown and its call lies even in what we know.
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On issue after issue, the Obama Administration has openly ignored, defied, and unilaterally tried to change the law.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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New Year's Eve, we're going to be doing a concert with the Philadelphia Orchestra in Symphony Hall. It makes me feel good, because of all the people they could have had, they wanted me! We do have to do a little work with the rhythm section.
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Just because a rapper is white, I don't feel the need to attack them.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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Abstract painting seeks to be a pure pictorial language, and thus attempts to escape the essential impurity of all languages: the recourse to signs or forms that have meanings shared by everyone.
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Education is at the heart of achieving your dreams.
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There's something troubling about a condition in which one country alone, which has roughly 5 percent of the world's population, spends more than 50 percent of the world's defense budgets. There's something weird about it.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I cannot be music director at La Scala and at Staatsoper. This would be unfair to one of the two institutions.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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Everything that I do to my own hair and makeup I learned from professionals.
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I'm not trying to write a perfect record. I'm just trying to nail a moment in time.
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Happiness is just a positive perception from our brain. Some days, you will be unhappy. Our brain is a tool we use. It's not who we are.
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I'm from East Texas, yes.
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Seven innings, three starts in a row, that's an improvement for me, and that's what I want to do: be out there in the game longer.
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Franchesca and Sharkey, my French bulldogs, have their own blog. And they are brilliant at it.
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Battledore and shuttlecock's a wery good game, vhen you an't the shuttlecock and two lawyers the battledores, in which case it gets too exciting to be pleasant.
