Charles Dickens Quotes
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
Daniel De Leon -
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.
Radhanath Swami -
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.
Zhang Zhidong -
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.
Dana Boente -
In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
Jackie Cooper -
Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
Carlos Santana Santana
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I never felt like I had a mother.
Quincy Jones -
If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.
Yael Grobglas -
Money may kindle, but it cannot by itself, and for very long, burn.
Igor Stravinsky -
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.
Daisaku Ikeda -
You don't know where life takes you.
Ian McShane
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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.
Edmund White -
I believe in music because it has the power of change.
Abigail Washburn -
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.
Paige VanZant -
It took a lot of time and practice for me to realise that there's no point trying to be something you're not.
Laura Marling -
I'm one of the people that, when I hear Republicans talk about repealing Obamacare, I just want to roll my eyes. Republicans talk about reform to the healthcare, and they talk about selling insurance across state lines, and that's their solution?
Gary Johnson -
For me concrete poetry was a particular way of using language which came out of a particular feeling, and I don't have control over whether this feeling is in me or not.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
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I think luck is the sense to recognize an opportunity and the ability to take advantage of it... The man who can smile at his breaks and grab his chances gets on.
Samuel Goldwyn -
Security starts from home. You have to secure your own people so that those who are coming from outside also will be secured.
Hailemariam Desalegn -
People want things now. People in the rock world seem to not want to give it to them - they want to keep doing things the old way - and one thing that has always bummed me out is when we get a single three months out, and then you have to keep getting fed with bread crumbs.
M. Shadows -
Everything changes as a mother. Yes, work has changed. The projects that I choose are even more important to me now. The world he's growing up in and the kind of stimulus that is out there; they are so precious and I'd do anything to protect him.
Jennifer Connelly -
Memory has always been fundamental for me. In fact, remembering what I had forgotten is the way most of the poems get started.
Seamus Heaney -
Every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
Charles Dickens