Charles Dickens Quotes
I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Wonder rather than doubt is the root of all knowledge.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.
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Israel can't be the only country in the Western world not to have freedom of religion.
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Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.
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I'm lucky enough to do what I like for work - not everyone's that fortunate.
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Hip-hop is making a lot of noise. It should get some more spotlight.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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The great thing about Gospel is that you don't have to have an album every year in order to keep working.
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My grandma passed away from cancer, and actually, when I was 18, I had an experience with melanoma – it's in the family. I had that experience where everything comes into perspective. It's the weirdest thing, 'cause you're like, 'It will never happen to me,' and when it does, it's like, 'OK, wow.'
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It's really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.
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The culture means the younger generation respecting the OGs, but at the same time, bringing it all to the older generation to where they can relate.
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Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
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I am not a madman or a nut.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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I don't take breaks, man. In the past, I used to spend my free time getting in trouble, and now I spend it working on my music. If I'm not playing drums with my cover band, Chevy Metal, I'm working on songs for myself.
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When it comes to federal elections law, Tom DeLay and his special-interest friends live by one set of rules, and everyone else lives by a very different set.
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Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.
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I certainly can't complain. I work six days a week, if not seven, and eighteen hours out of twenty-four - fortunately, with a great deal of pleasure. Why? Because I only do something if I want to do it; I need to feel a desire, to find pleasure in moving forward, creating, moving, inventing.
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I am not really certain how original my contribution to music is as I am obviously an amateur.
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I'm a very boring person.
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I made a compact with myself that in my person literature should stand by itself, of itself, and for itself.
