Charles Dickens Quotes
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The truth is, I just don't have the drive to be the prettiest and the thinnest. I can be happy for other people for their beauty.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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I have managed to infuriate the bank bosses; acquire a fatwa from the revolutionary guards of the trades union movement; frighten the 'Daily Telegraph' with a progressive graduate payment; and upset very rich people who are trying to dodge British taxes. I must be doing something right.
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We encourage whistleblowers to come forward in instances where the government is a victim.
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I don't have many friends.
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I have been working for over 30 years and am always wondering about where I am and where I am going. It does not stop and become a fixed event of achievement.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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Take the time today to understand your contribution to any bad event you've just been through.
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There is no scientific explanation for the fact that while my body lay in coma, my mind - my conscious, inner self - was alive and well.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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There's something extraordinary about selling millions and millions of albums.
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There's nothing you can really do to prepare to rock. Do you prepare to eat a delicious meal? Are you hungry? Then you're gonna eat it.
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My idol is Bea Arthur. I really tried to follow her example. She is one of my comedy 'she-roes.'
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Nobody likes, you know, the ugly parts of politics.
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I never thought that I'd be dancing with Shia LaBeouf. When I heard he was going to be my partner, I was like, 'Does he even dance?' He doesn't, really, but he's such a sweet person.
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Ocean is more ancient than the mountains, and freighted with the memories and the dreams of Time.
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I'm an Air force Brat and I've lived all over the world and this country and there were people in my community who were gay - nurses, hairdressers, designers - people who just had a different way about themselves.
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A lot of (Kyle's) stories when he was back home in Texas, a lot of his own personal opinions about what he was doing in Iraq, how he viewed Iraqis. Some of what people have described as his racist tendencies towards Iraqis and Muslims when he was going on some of these, you know, killing sprees in Iraq on assignment. So I think there are issues... When he was involved in his - on assignments in terms of what he was doing. A lot of the description that has come out from his book and some of the terminology that he has used, people have described as racist.
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I have an instinct for finding the odd location, the dismissed face, the eerie atmosphere, the oppressed mood.
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I believed I was invincible.
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Through travel, you discover a new aspect to your personality. You discover things which you wouldn't seated in the confines of your home.
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If the biographer gives me credit for being a plodder, he will describe me justly. Anything beyond this will be too much. I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.
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There might be some credit in being jolly.
