Charles Dickens Quotes
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We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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In 1958, my father invested everything he had in a business venture and became the largest automobile dealership in Chicago for Ford's new Edsel line. But Edsel sales plummeted and my father fell into bankruptcy. I watched him struggle; working long hours to protect us from poverty.
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Without knowing about flexibility, one cannot work out strategies to deal with the enemy and prepare for changes, and without knowing about the foundation of one's own culture, one would be contemptuous of the Confucian ethical codes.
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The Department of Justice will continue to pursue those that travel to fight against the United States and our allies, as well as those individuals that recruit others on behalf of ISIL in the homeland.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date.
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The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be.
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I never felt like I had a mother.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
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I'm no hardened criminal who the authorities need to hunt.
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Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
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A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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I suppose where I am sort of reflects the work I have chosen to do. Are there occasional frustrations because I can't work with a certain director because it's a big studio movie, and I don't have enough of a studio profile? The answer is yes. But generall... generally, I have the career I have chosen myself.
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I asked my body if it was going to die or not from AIDS. And it said 'no.' I sort of paid attention to that.
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I believe in music because it has the power of change.
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The uniqueness of the United States in human history is the United States is the first global power in human history which emerged far away from Africa or Asia, which is the main land of human history.
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Those 'Idol' shows are kind of scary to me. They wanted me to be on one of those panels one time, and I said it's the last thing in the world I'd ever want to do. I would hate to have to discourage somebody.
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If politics and business fail us, of course the military will be called in. In the developing world, the massive and repeated ecological disasters are quite commonly met by the military.
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
