Charles Dickens Quotes
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I write really scathing, angry stuff when I'm in a better mood, and then uplifting and happy stuff when I'm at the absolute bottom.
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Until Lee Elder, the only blacks at the Masters were caddies or waiters. To ask a black man what he feels about the traditions of the Masters is like asking him how he feels about his forefathers who were slaves.
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I don't want to make games for 12-year-olds. I have no interest in that. I haven't been 12 in a long time.
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We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.
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In a way, being born is a sort of ecological contagion. When you have longevity of family, we remember our grandfathers and maybe our great-grandfathers. We somehow don't have the capacity in modern life to remember further than that. All of the ramifications of their lives have an effect on us, and we're not aware of it.
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I'd park myself in the bookstore and read with one eye on everyone coming in. I remember reading a Robert Bly book of poetry.
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Careless shepherd make excellent dinner for wolf.
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My father read poetry to me, encouraged me to memorize poems. But the writing of it was quite a different thing.
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I was named after Yul Brynner because my mother had an infatuation with him. Who the hell names a Cuban kid Yul? Talk about a torturous childhood.
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I'll never look down on and I love running into actors who say 'Oh yeah, I did a soap.' I say 'Tell me which one!' It's like being a member of a secret society.
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Whenever my patient begins to count the carriages in her funeral procession I subtract 50 per cent from the curative power of medicines.
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We never had such a violation of human rights. In fact, we have had no human rights case here in the Philippines, even to this day.
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When you hear that a certain man is so good that he wants to help everybody, you may depend upon it that he started the story.
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Music has the capacity to create a greater reality.
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Controlling a laser with Linux is crazy, but everyone in this room is crazy in his own way. So if you want to use Linux to control an industrial welding laser, I have no problem with your using
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For my part I prefer fifty thousand rifles to five million votes.
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One of my earliest memories is of seeing my mother in her beach chair, reading a book under an umbrella by the water's edge while my sisters and I played beside her. Of all the life lessons she taught me, that is one of my favorites: to take time at a place I love, restore my spirit with books and the beach.
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I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.
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Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.
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My father was in Ataturk's closest group. They lived together during the War of Liberation in Turkey.
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Justice is the sum of all moral duty.
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Our prayer and God's mercy are like two buckets in a well; while the one ascends the other descends.
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Growing up in the San Fernando Valley, I grew up around a lot of Jews. I grew up culturally Jewish, ethnically Jewish, but without real belief and without a strong faith.
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All partings foreshadow the great final one.
