Charles Dickens Quotes
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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Of course great politicians are always liable to be wrong about something, and the more people tell them they are wrong, the more stubbornly they defend their error.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Men always do leave off really thinking, when the last bit of wild animal dies in them.
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Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.
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I always follow what my spirit tells me to do.
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I've come to learn that the determined and gifted and genuine sociopath has far more power to deceive than we realize.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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I bartended for a catering company for two or three years.
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It was a decent New Year's, but it took a million officers to make it so.
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A sentence that clots in your mouth is unlikely to flow in your mind.
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More is asked of you on stage. It's no way to make a living. But it's like a bullfight. You find out who can do it and who can't.
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.
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There's so many good comedians in D.C. I started hanging out with those guys. Dave Chappelle was there. Actually, Dave was too young to be in the clubs, so when his mom couldn't make it, he would ask me to pretend I was his aunt, so he could do open mike.
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I will support my party when they are right on an issue, but am not afraid to stand up to party bosses who are not looking out for the best interests of my constituents and our country.
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I restore myself when I'm alone. A career is born in public - talent in privacy.
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I always find myself gravitating toward stories of transformation, and one of those periods is teenage life. When teenagers are figuring out who they are and have one foot in childhood and the other in adulthood - I think that's a really mythic moment to tell stories about.
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Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else.
