Charles Dickens Quotes
May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
Quotes to Explore
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As with the onset of sudden celebrity, for the newly rich, the world often becomes a darker, narrower, less generous place; a paradox that elicits scant sympathy, but is nonetheless true.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
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As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.
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We hope the stories of the 14 kids in 'American High' provide something for many people to relate to.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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As a boy, I wanted to be the Peruvian Diego Maradona. Sadly, Peru hasn't made the World Cup since 1982, so I guess I did well to choose something different.
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I'm very happy to co-produce a film like 'Srimanthudu.'
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Women just love to shop.
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I'm actually not on Twitter.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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When you have the first show set in India on American television, there's gonna be a Nervous Nellie kind of vibe.
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Obama promised a return to competence and confidence and asked the nation to believe again that the government could do big things well. In the end, he got his big thing, a once-in-a-generation revision to the basic social compact, a commitment of health coverage to nearly all Americans. He has yet to prove he can do it well.
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Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
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I always like to preserve my freedom. I've never really been attached to any place; that's probably why I kept moving. I like to evolve.
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We know from chaos theory that even if you had a perfect model of the world, you'd need infinite precision in order to predict future events. With sociopolitical or economic phenomena, we don't have anything like that.
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I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.
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I always have fun on the mountain, so it's always nice to go back out there and do what I love.
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The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.
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Most of us are experts at solving other people's problems, but we generally solve them in terms of our own and the advice we give is seldom for other people but for ourselves.
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May not the complaint, that common people are above their station, often take its rise in the fact of uncommon people being below theirs?
