Charles Dickens Quotes
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I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
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I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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Throughout my life, I have valued relationships far more than the professionalism.
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Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
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I would like to do a duet with Taylor Hanson, because I have loved Hanson since I was 8.
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Corruption is in society and in every strata of society.
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I try to avoid conflict. I don't want people to be unhappy.
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I believe that misconceptions about oneself that one does not correct where possible act as a bad magic.
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I have heard nothing from my friends at The Family Guy. Yeah, I heard that they got picked up again and all that good stuff, but I haven't heard anything yet. But, you know, I'm very elusive and hard to contact.
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My penalty for rocking the boat was being traded.
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I feel like maybe I'm part of that generation that became more of a gamer than a video consumer. It's always been something I've done with my spare time. If I had three hours on a Friday night, I'm not out partying. I'm probably playing video games.
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The competition between me and Bill Gates, probably: Who can spend money more effectively that can do better philanthropy.
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Motherhood is so sentimentalised and romanticised in our culture. It's practically against the law to say there are moments in the day when you hate your children. Everyone actually has those moments.
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I've always been very tied to language.
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Gloves make you so much more delicate.
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Since I'm a vegetarian, I try to focus on getting my protein and iron needs met.
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What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning.
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The men who seem to know most of God's power have had great, unspeakable longings, at times, for a fresh consciousness of that power.
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My mom was the first African-American woman to graduate from the University of Chicago Law School, in 1946. She had leadership roles in the law, in government and the corporate world. She was a great role model in that she felt anything was possible.
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Not every brand needs to be on every social platform. Brands should have a very strategic objective, whether it's marketing or commercial. The biggest mistake a brand can make is to be on a social platform without a plan or the resources to manage it.
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El árbol está solo, la nube está sola. Todo está solo cuando yo estoy solo.
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She's the ornament of her sex.
