Charles Dickens Quotes

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• The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Party
  • Liberal
  • Corporate

• As coaches, any work you may do, it's been done long ago.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• I have 1.4 million followers on Twitter. I get very interesting, sometimes very diverse input from my followers. So it's sort of like this water cooler, digital water cooler, if you want to think about it, where you go and you listen to conversations that are happening that perhaps will shape your thinking.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Interesting

• It's an advantage having a limited output. When George Gershwin is asked to play his repertoire, he plays all evening. I just play 'Lady Play Your Mandolin' and I'm through.

  

  Oscar Levant

• If you're going to define a shortcut, then make it the base [sic] darn shortcut you can.

  

  Larry Wall

• Rockefeller viewed his philanthropy through the lens of his business, and it really mirrored the Industrial Revolution. It was highly centralized, it was top down, it was based on experts, and it was big-picture.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Business
  • Picture
  • Revolution

• We must not believe those, who today, with philosophical bearing and deliberative tone, prophesy the fall of culture and accept the ignorabimus. For us there is no ignorabimus, and in my opinion none whatever in natural science. In opposition to the foolish ignorabimus our slogan shall be:

  

  David Hilbert
  • Believe
  • Today
  • Science

• Real friends stab you in the front.

  

  Jonathan Davis
  • Real
  • Friends

• Someone once said anyone can be great under rosy circumstances, but the true test of character is measured by how well a person makes decisions during difficult times.

  

  Jack Gantos
  • Great
  • Character
  • True

• Fear must rule in a despotism.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • Fear
  • Rule
  • Despotism

• Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Salvation

• Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children's hands early and often.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Children
  • Book
  • Reading

• This is a strange pocket of the western world where it is still deemed utterly acceptable to take smart, successful women and reduce them to beauty pageant contestants.

  

  Hadley Freeman
  • World
  • Women
  • Smart

• My style is a little masculine, and what I loved about Pyer Moss was how well he can make a blazer, the looseness of those pants, or color palette that he chooses from season to season.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • Style
  • Color
  • Masculine

• For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • People
  • Important
  • Pursuit

• The 2001 tour to Australia would have been a great highlight in my career if the Lions had won the series. That might sound strange because it was a great tour in many ways, but, for me, the more time goes by, the less of a career highlight it becomes, and just more of a frustration.

  

  Brian O'Driscoll
  • Career
  • Australia
  • Series

• No one depended anymore on my care and, finally, even I was no longer a burden to myself.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Care
  • Burden

• When you got a group like G-Unit... we sold millions of records, we got a lot of egos.

  

  Tony Yayo
  • Records
  • Groups
  • Millions

• I somehow sensed when I was a teenager that I wanted to do my own work. I was quite clear that I didn't want to be an interpretative kind of artist. I had an intuition about wanting to create my own form, in one way or another, whatever that would be.

  

  Meredith Monk
  • Teenager
  • Intuition
  • Would

• Heaven suits the back to the burden.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Burden
  • Heaven Suits