Charles Dickens Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The biggest issue that we have to contend with is campaign finance reform.
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A dog is a pitiful thing, depending wholly on companionship, and utterly lost except in packs or by the side of his master. Leave him alone, and he does not know what to do except bark and howl and trot about till sheer exhaustion forces him to sleep.
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At Al Jazeera, we are getting our local Somalis, Yemenis and Sudanese, local correspondents from within the society, who understand much better than the people who come from overseas. We will get a much better insight.
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I don't take success and failure seriously. The only thing I do seriously is march forward. If I fall, I get up and march again.
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I was just a kid, but I was a rotten kid.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I like to have fun, just stay relaxed.
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I went to college, though I didn't take many writing courses.
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Nonviolent tactics can move into action on our behalf men not naturally inclined to act for us.
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The bottom line is, I want us to rebound, defend, share the ball, play hard. That's all. Now if you can't do that, if that's not important enough to you, it's not on me.
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Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.
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The tech industry - and, more specifically, Silicon Valley - continues to stumble forward in earnest about how few women are represented in its top ranks of management and on its boards.
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I'll get up there and I'll do my guitar solos in one of those space outfits.
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What we want is to make something that fills utterly the sight and can't be used to make life only bearable.
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I remember everything from 1976. I remember I was 14, and I remember my routines.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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If you have a kid who goes to kindergarten and doesn't know what a circle is, doesn't know what red and green are, and doesn't know what right and left are, by the time he learns those things, the rest of the class is far ahead of him.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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Democratic forms of government are vulnerable to mass prejudice, the so-called tyranny of the majority.
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The portraits are VERY difficult to make. The use of a skeleton creates an interesting balance between life and death.
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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When I was in pre-production for Trees Lounge, I was hearing the cinematographer talking with the production designer about colours and this and that and feeling like I was losing control.
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When we were doing a scene, lots of times we would collapse giggling, because it seemed so silly because it felt like we were doing a home movie at times.
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Keep up appearances whatever you do.
