Charles Dickens Quotes
Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
Quotes to Explore
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Figure out what you're good at and start helping other people with it; give it away. Pay it forward. Karma sort of works because people are very consistent. On a long enough timescale, you will attract what you project.
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I don't much care whether rural Anatolians or Istanbul secularists take power. I'm not close to any of them. What I care about is respect for the individual.
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A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.
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The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.
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Look what venison does to a goofy guitar player from Detroit? I'm going to be 54 this year and if I had any more energy I'd scare you.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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Psoriasis is an autoimmune disease, and I'm sensitive.
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Kuwait City is not gorgeous, actually, but it's got a kind of Epcot Center thing going for it. It's not pretty. But it's striking, I'll give it that. It's not as over-the-top as Abu Dhabi or Dubai. But nearly.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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It's almost like he's started to sound even more exotic the more people started doing him. I don't know why, but there's just something about Al Gore that makes me laugh.
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My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them.
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The problem is not simply that the Singularity represents the passing of humankind from center stage, but that it contradicts our most deeply held notions of being.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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A lot of times, songs can blend together on the radio because there's so many great songs out there.
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If I'm teaching girls that do love to make cookies and do love fashion - that they can use math as a part of that - you think that's me saying, come on girls you belong in the kitchen, you belong shopping? Or, do you think it's me showing them how math is part of all their life, even the part they thought it had nothing to do with?
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I need to have a great deal of control and the ability to share my control with my collaborators and grant them the freedom and the quality of work I think these people deserve. If I don't have those elements, I walk away.
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For years, comprehensive tax reform has eluded legislators.
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There's a burden of representation that comes into play when there aren't enough representatives of a certain group in popular culture.
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It is a novel kind of supremacy, the best that life can offer, to have as servants by skill those who by nature are our masters.
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When they invented the Steadicam, every movie had to have a fight in a stairwell. Whenever there's a new thing, it's abused until artists realize what a Steadicam as a tool can be. And now I defy people to be able to see Steadicam shots, because we know how to do them and make them invisible.
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Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise.
