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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The laws of physics should allow us to arrange things molecule by molecule and even atom by atom, and at some point it was inevitable that we would develop a technology that would let us do this.
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When the physical organism breaks up, the soul survives. It then takes on another body.
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Griffin, my brother, 11 months younger, was sometimes the victim of my father's fury - once Ryan famously knocked out his teeth.
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I love to see heroes who fuel some kind of moral furnace inside them, who are driven to take on the evils of the world, despite the fact that the evils of the world are more powerful than them. And essentially can never be defeated, but they refuse to bow down. And in order to enjoy that aspect of the hero, you've got to put them through hell.
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The world will not evolve past its current state of crisis by using the same thinking that created the situation.
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'Tis love that makes the world go round, my baby.
