Charles Dickens Quotes
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There's a spirit of Latina women in all of my work, in the love of the body and the strong sense of self.
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Elizabeth, Lady C, claims to be writing at the limits of language. Would it not be insulting to her if I were diligently to follow after her, explaining what she means but is not smart enough to say?
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If you've followed my career at all, you will know that I perform best in comfortable surroundings. Though other leagues may seem more enticing to other players, it's something I'm just not interested in doing personally.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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The fact that Western Muslims are free means that they can have enormous impact. But it would be wrong to claim that we are imposing our ways on the West. New ideas are now coming from the West. To be traditional is not so much a question of protecting ourselves as to be traditionalist in principle.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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Fear may very well be a caveman fear of the predator, of the giant lizard chasing them - maybe that's what Steven Spielberg connects with so well in Lost World.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
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Science does not know its debt to imagination.
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I'm evangelical.
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I decide my future. I decide what I want to do. Nobody else. If I decide this will be my last year, maybe it is. If I decide it will be my last contract, I decide that. Nobody else. So I will decide when the moment is there.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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I've never been with a losing team in my life, and I don't think I'll start now.
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I have been disillusioned, however, this long, long time in the means used by any but the saints to live in this world God has made for us.
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The fact that we're living in a country where 90 percent of the people want further gun laws - to maybe somehow put a dent in some of this insanity that's happening - and yet there's no further legislation taking place, it's very frustrating and upsetting.
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I've also learned to no longer feel guilty if I'm invited out and don't want to go. If I start to say to myself, 'What's wrong with you that you're staying in five nights in a row to watch 'Forensic Files' instead of going out with your friends' I remind myself that it's what I need to do for myself at that point.
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The great day of the Fire-eater - or, should I say, the day of the great Fire-eater - has passed.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
