Charles Dickens Quotes
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Throughout history, self-styled arbiters have taken it upon themselves to decide the question of what can or cannot be the legitimate purview of art.
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Let us consider the glorious Saint Paul: it seems that no other name fell from his lips than that of Jesus, because the name of Jesus was fixed and embedded in his heart.
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I personally love the record-making more than the actually performing and travelling. It's funny, the drastic shift in lifestyle that comes with it. It certainly satisfies my more adventurous side, but it leaves little time for contemplation and all of that.
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After spending 22 years in Ohio, I love everything about New York.
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Individuals can spend their money more wisely, efficiently and more humanely than can government.
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I think that we've got a huge head start on things that are not easy to do: progressive streaming, to be able to stream in very high quality, even in an environment of highly variable bit rate, and to work on a big variety of devices seamlessly.
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As a young man you don't notice at all that you were, after all, badly affected. For years afterwards, at least ten years, I kept getting these dreams, in which I had to crawl through ruined houses, along passages I could hardly get through.
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Emotional messiness is my reason for life. In acting, it's so important.
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I treasure my meetings with individuals affected by autism - parents, children, teachers and friends. Their strength is inspiring. They deserve all possible opportunities for education, employment and integration.
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Walking at random through the streets, we came by chance upon the Cathedral of Notre Dame. I shall long remember my first impression of the scene within. The lofty gothic ceiling arched far above my head and through the stained windows the light came but dimly - it was all still, solemn and religious.
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I developed a deep sadness for celebrities, a pity that they often are caught in a plastic world that runs too hard and too fast, and that many times that world means destroyed relationships with everyone they know and love.
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In the future, I'd like to make jewelry and sell it under my own name. But right now, I've got enough on my plate!
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Young people who are just starting out somehow need to let you know they know how to sing.
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Once you depart from the Ten Commandments as being the foundation of right and wrong, you are in a free fall.
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Fiction has subversive potential. People let it into their minds, like the Trojan Horse. They don't know what's inside. You hook them with the story, and God can work below the level of their consciousness. Fiction can be propaganda for evil or convey a theme that impacts people for good.
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We must oppose programs that would take food from the mouths of younger generations to buy prescription drugs for old people, and we must do it... for the children.
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To divinise is human, to humanise is divine.
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so the countess passed on until she came through the little park, where Niobe presented her with a cabinet, and so departed.
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The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
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'Ruby Sparks' has been sold like a romcom in the States. But we never saw it like that.
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The problem men seem to have, and women, too, is that they have this very structured idea that we should find a partner and settle down and be, you know, faithful. And yet clearly this is really, really hard for anybody to do!
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A president from a partner nation should not make comments on Italian politics.
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In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.
