Charles Dickens Quotes
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I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.
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I always went with my agenda, I just couldn't execute it.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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I have to remind myself constantly that people actually want to hear the music I've made; that's hard for me to digest. I think a live audience is the only tangible evidence you can have that your work is making an impact. It's really humbling.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.
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He used to have a tent show, a little tent show, and I thought I was going to get a job working one year on the tent show, but he closed it down and I never got to go out there, but anyway, he had a sax and played drums.
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The Fed has become an accomplice in the support of totalitarian regimes throughout the world.
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The most precious things in speech are pauses.
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I've learned about ice water in the morning - when you wake up tired, or you're jet lagged and you've been flying and your skin is dry, or you have puffy eyes - the ice water really helps cool the face down and helps circulation.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I did a lot of ridiculous television. Between 1980 and '85 I had no confidence, so I did everything I was told to do.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.
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I'm very much against war; I'm very much against terrorism of any kind. I find terrorism to be one of the most appalling things that can exist in society.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Music is the message of peace, and music only brings peace.
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To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.
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I write flawed characters. Ones that do not always make the best decisions and are driven by ambition or lust. They are not black or white, they are in the large space that exists between.
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If we say it long enough eventually we're going to reap a harvest. We're going to get exactly what we're saying.
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You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improvement, and at the same time share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.
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Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy.
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Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own.
