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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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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I try to eat healthy for the most part. When I cut weight, I cut pretty much everything out. I don't have protein when I cut weight other than what I might get from something like chicken breast. So I don't eat any extra protein, just because I'm trying to get the weight off. That's the only real diet I have.
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I have a deep conviction that our lives are eternal, that it is waking and sleeping, that we are born together with the people we love lifetime after lifetime.
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The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety.
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Fear Allah, for that is fortune; indifference to Allah is misfortune.
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Properly, we should read for power. Man reading should be man intensely alive. The book should be a ball of light in one's hand.
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Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
