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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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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Finding a technical cofounder would have been difficult for me. I was an English major and didn't know any computer programmers.
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I didn't just grow up in one environment, so it was easy for me, as a child, just to imitate and just be all these different people.
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It's almost always easier to sell to an existing customer base than to find a new one.
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Well, you know, people don't know me as a country artist and I am new to the genre. But that's how I grew up singing.
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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience.
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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?
