Charles Dickens Quotes
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I'm writing what comes into my head, or through me, or from somewhere else, and it is the most extraordinary, exciting thing. I love it, and I'm very greedy, and I really enjoy it!
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What I love about what I get to do is that I'm allowed to create the stories that I want to tell with minimal interference by some very big corporations like Microsoft and Sprint and EA and BioWare. The advantage that these tech companies have is that they understand the space organically, versus traditional media companies.
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Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.
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Customers want new things, and the way that they get them isn't written in stone.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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I think the new generation is much more demanding about respect for the environment than we have ever imagined.
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Before you begin designing or buying anything, you need to get real and ask yourself: What do you really want to use this room for? What do you want to do in this room but can't now?
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
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And so, the youngsters you have today, even though there are far fewer of them - in World War II 16.5 million men and women in uniform, today roughly a million in uniform in spite of the fact that the country is almost twice as large a population as we had in World War II.
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I like to have friends in the kitchen and make a big mess and use every pot in the kitchen.
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Yancy is actually a Native-American name, but I'm Irish. Go figure.
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My first celebrity crush... I had a huge crush on 'Cheetara' from 'ThunderCats.'
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I'm for people bettering themselves, no matter who they are and where they are, doing all they can to be all they can be.
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I can't say that I've made the transition to movies.
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When you're playing, you're playing something for the world to hear.
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The rights of no oppressed people have ever yet been obtained by a voluntary act of justice on the part of the oppressors.
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The journey toward your Big Dream changes you. In fact, the journey itself is what prepares you to succeed at what you were born to do.
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What determines success in industrial policy is not the ability to pick winners but the capacity to let the losers go.
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All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should innocently take a bad half-crown of somebody else's manufacture, is reasonable enough; but that I should knowingly reckon the spurious coin of my own make, as good money!
