Charles Dickens Quotes
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I was a hot-dog stand lady, I was an orphan housemother, I was a waitress 3 or 4 times. All of those jobs did not have good bosses. They basically told you what to do, when to do and when to hop. And I just didn't like that very much.
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I think all politicians lie.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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I couldn't speak well. I went to speech therapy for 10 years. And I was sort of frustrated in that sense.
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Of all work-schools, a good farm is probably the best for motor development.
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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As far as I can remember, every dime I ever had went to something extravagant. I would rather spend more, buy fewer items and have them forever.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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Rome will exist as long as the Coliseum does; when the Coliseum falls, so will Rome; when Rome falls, so will the world.
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President Obama was never going repeal Obamacare - he was not going to be brought to his knees with the threat of a government shutdown.
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The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have shown that U.N. peacekeeping is far more effective and done with far less money than what any government can do on its own.
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I urge researchers to make use of the opportunities that are available to them and to do all they can to fulfill the promise that stem cell research offers.
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I have a very vivid memory of the way my parents spoke, and the 50's that I grew up in are closer to the 20's, I think, than today in many, many ways.
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'Married with Children' was racy. It was sexist. It was a lot of things, but mostly it was funny.
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It's interesting that when economic times were the hardest, that's when many people embraced liberalism.
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Yeah, I know, any time you hear an actor say, 'I do music', you cringe. But I want to be gradual with my music. I want to earn my stripes.
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To communicate with each other, we got to get mad at each other sometimes.
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There are a number of qualities which are important for mental peace, but from the little experience I have, I believe that one of the most important factors is human compassion and affection: a sense of caring.
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All poems say the same thing, and each poem is unique. Each part reproduces the others, and each part is different.
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Dad was a bus driver, and when he finished work he would repair cars.
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Live Like a Narnian: Christian Discipleship in C.S. Lewis’s Chronicles
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I would say country is the one type of music I've spent the least amount of time with in my life. I grew up in Virginia, where there was a lot of it, but I was more interested in rock and roll. Southern rock.
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It is not easy to walk alone in the country without musing upon something.
