Charles Dickens Quotes
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Gags die, humor doesn't.
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Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.
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The whole contains nothing which is not or its advantage; and all natures indeed have this common principle, but the nature of the universe has this principle besides, that it cannot be compelled even by any external cause to generate anything harmful to itself.
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Ninety percent of the hands aren't shown in a poker game.
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I do all core-based alignment training and strength training. If I don't die at the end of 90 minutes, then it hasn't been a good workout.
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None of the teams that actually probably were offering me a job from the getgo, actually in spring training, are in the playoffs right now.
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Everything you say in a family carries meaning from all that was said before. So with friends, there is less likelihood of a few words triggering associations from childhood, where our deepest emotions often are rooted.
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Kids have awkward moments.
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Recovery begins from the darkest moment.
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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.
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I don't try and be competitive with auditions. When I go on one, I kind of just forget about it.
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You get very comfortable doing the open mic circuit, turning up to the same places and playing to 20 people. In that situation, it won't matter if you aren't great on that night because no one will really remember who you are. Then suddenly you are doing rooms to 400 people and you have to up your game.
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Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it - the grain, how it feels, the texture.
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I put my arm around her and said, "Jas, I have found that when you are troubled, it is often better to think of others rather than yourself. I think you would feel much better if you got me some milky coffee and jammy dodgers and I told you all about me.
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My Pleasure is my business
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A thousand Dreams within me softly burn.
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The claim of the Zen followers that they are transmitting the essence of Buddhism is based on their belief that Zen takes hold of the enlivening spirit of the Buddha, stripped of all its historical and doctrinal garments.
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It takes the wool from your eyes about how the world works, to show you that nothing's necessarily fair, and that you might have a hard life.
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It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour.
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Last week I told my psychiatrist, 'I keep thinking about suicide', and he told me from now I have to pay in advance.
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A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.
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The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.
