Charles Dickens Quotes

It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

Charles Dickens

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• The first 10 years of my life, I lived as 'Matangi.' When I came to England in '86, my first week of school was terrible because I would put my hand up to answer things, and no one would choose me because they couldn't say my name. My auntie came from Europe to visit us, and she was like, 'Just call yourself something else.'

  

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• Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.

  

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• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

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• Let's start to have a grown up debate in this country about who we are and where we want to go and what kind of country we want to build.

  

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• I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.

  

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• I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.

  

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• You need to make a trip to Des Moines in August, because the Iowa State Fair really is a sight to see. The Iowa Fairgrounds are usually packed for those 11 days, and you get a real sense of what a classic Midwest fair is all about.

  

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• Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.

  

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• The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.

  

  B. H. Liddell Hart
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• With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

  

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• The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

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• I do get recognized, more and more every day.

  

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• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  

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• I did a B.A. with a major in fine arts and a minor in psychology. I wanted to become a teacher or do art therapy for the elderly. But then I realised I wanted to travel instead.

  

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• Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.

  

  Nancy Meyers
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• You can't get there alone. People have to help you, and I do believe in karma. I believe in paybacks. You get people to help you by telling the truth, by being earnest.

  

  Randy Pausch
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• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

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• Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
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• I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

  

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• Nay, in every epoch of the world, the great event, parent of all others, is it not the arrival of a Thinker in the world?

  

  Thomas Carlyle
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• Start-ups should be hunch-driven early on and data-driven as they scale.

  

  Fred Wilson

• Gov. Romney said he would veto the Dream Act. Gov. Romney essentially said the 11 million people ought to just go home, they ought to self-deport. President Romney, if he is elected, is not going to fix our immigration system.

  

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• Prayer brings a good spirit in our homes. For God hears prayer. Heaven itself would come down to our homes. And even though we who constitute the home all have our imperfections and our failings, our home would, through God's answer to prayer, become a little paradise.

  

  Ole Hallesby
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• It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.

  

  Charles Dickens
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  • Miserable