Charles Dickens Quotes
In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no button that you push and the next day you become independent.
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They are very brave when they talk about other countries where they have no competencies, but where are they when we citizens need them? Is Europe's solution to Catalans to turn its back?
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For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.
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I will not contest my parliamentary seat in a sad election that will not produce a Parliament capable of endorsing a realistic reform agenda for Greece.
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Becoming a model was very counter-culture for my background, which is hyper-liberal, academic and feminist.
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Actors are a race.
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Prostitution presents a moral, economic and social problem that cannot be resolved juridically.
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I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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There was a time when caddies couldn't wear shorts.
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There's always hurdles. So I just keep moving, just constantly redefining myself. That's how you stay in the race.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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When I was younger, I went through a phase when I didn't like my hair. Because the school I went to was primarily Caucasian, there wasn't anyone who had my hair texture. I remember one day I straightened my hair, and that was the first day that people gave me compliments on it.
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I'm a feminist in the true sense of the word. It's about equality.
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I think I'm pretty fearless. I like to try things at least once, things that I never thought that I would try.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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I have memories of films that nobody ever saw, that I was very proud of, and those are still great memories.
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I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.
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I can look back and recognize the things I've done and said that were wrong: unethical, gratuitously hurtful, golden-rule-breaking, et cetera. Sometimes the wrongness was even clear at the time, though not as clear as it is now. But I did these things because I felt the pull of a trajectory, a sense of experience piling up the way it does as you turn the pages of a novel. I would be lying if I said I was a different person now. I am the same person. I would do it all again.
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In a word, I was too cowardly to do what I knew to be right, as I had been too cowardly to avoid doing what I knew to be wrong.
