Charles Dickens Quotes
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At first, I found the music I was making really hard to find a home for. I felt like my attitude was really British, but not the actual sounds I was making. Back in 2003, when I made 'Galang,' there were no clubs that had an 'anything and everything' attitude.
M.I.A.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
Bailey Chase
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Start the practice of self-control with some penance; begin with fasting.
Mahavira
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
Kate Beckinsale
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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The ultimate aim of all creative activity is the building!
Walter Gropius
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I think foreign countries really do like it when American artists sing in their language. And when you go over there and say, 'Hi, how are you?' in their language, they love it. It makes them feel like you're doing it just for them. We in America take so much for granted.
Natalie Cole
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
Eden Hazard
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Faith is important to me.
Vera Farmiga
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Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.
Tatyana Ali
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I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective.
J. J. Abrams
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Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.
Walter Bagehot
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Any woman who stays with her abuser beyond the first incident is complicitous with him.
Camille Paglia
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This debate is coming down essentially to two visions - Mr. Harper's vision for Canada and my vision for Canada, and to a decision to be made by people disappointed by Mr. (Stephane) Dion
Jack Layton
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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
Jack McDevitt
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
Edward Abbey
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People are always asking me if I'm frightened, hanging out with al Qaeda, but usually those encounters are one-on-one interviews. I'm talking to people whose views I don't agree with, but that happens all the time.
Lawrence Wright
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We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.
Angela Merkel
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I was in Afghanistan and then obviously in Iraq. And I realized that you can't control life. You can do a lot to prepare. You can train, and at the end of the day there's an element that's always going to be beyond your control.
Nathaniel Fick
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Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea.
Alan Coren
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I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
Saint Patrick
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Sadness, irritability, fatigue, and distractedness are among the most common side effects of grief while parenting.
Rachel Simmons
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Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
Sadhu Sundar Singh
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Hours are golden links--God's tokens reaching heaven.
Charles Dickens