Charles Dickens Quotes
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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.'
M.I.A. -
That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.
Quintilian -
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.
Ed Miliband -
I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
Natalie Dormer -
Young people have a marvelous faculty of either dying or adapting themselves to circumstances.
Samuel Butler -
The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
Jack Welch -
I do get recognized, more and more every day.
Samira Wiley -
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.
Patrick J. Adams -
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.
Nargis Fakhri -
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 -
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.
Xavier Rudd -
Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
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.
Zach Anner -
I remember once being told by a casting person, years ago, that I shouldn't pursue a career in the business because of the color of my skin. The fact that I remember it today means it stuck with me. I thought that was really stupid advice and advice nobody should ever give someone.
Manish Dayal -
Do your best, one shot at a time and then move on. Remember that golf is just a game.
Nancy Lopez -
Most people honestly want to do as well as they can in their lives.
Oprah Winfrey
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Just the concept of personal freedom within a democracy, for instance, is a relatively young idea - only about 300 years old in this country.
Daniel Greenberg -
I always wanted to do a baseball book; I love baseball. The problem is that a very large part of my following is in non-baseball playing countries.
Bill Bryson -
The thought of dancing scared me. A lot. Because I have absolutely no aptitude for it.
Daniel Radcliffe -
I don't think my father considered allowing a teenager to follow his dreams was necessarily good parenting, or even parenting. I think he thought I was a teenager with teenage impulses. I'm pretty sure he knew that if he just let me follow those impulses, it would wind up being very expensive and perhaps even life-endangering.
W. Bruce Cameron -
It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.
Randall Jarrell -
It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home.
Charles Dickens