Charles Dickens Quotes
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.

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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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More than anything, there are more images in evil. Evil is based far more on the visual, whereas good has no good images at all.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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When you start directing movies at the age of 24, you're just a kid; you don't necessarily even have the experiences to add to the story. You're working off of instinct and raw emotions and raw talent, and hopefully it's the same trajectory as growing as a person.
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Minor Threat was an important band, believe me that it was important it in my life, but it belongs to an era that no longer exists. I'm not nostalgic. I think music today is much more important, because something can be done about it.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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I find it easier to strike the ball with my instep across goal. But I've scored in loads of other ways, too.
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Government can supply bread, but it can't mend a broken spirit.
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To some extent, the act of creation and the act of selling are hard to disentangle. If you create something, whether it's a painting or a company, I think if you care about it, you have some obligation to go out and tell people about it.
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I absolutely have not spoken to Marvel. It doesn't mean that my team hasn't spoken to Marvel.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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Everybody is different. Everybody has different styles. Just do it the best way you know how.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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My politics are private, but many of my feminist politics cross over into my professional life.
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I'm happy when I have, like, one fan, but the fact that I'm getting fans from different places and different communities, it's really amazing.
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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Love can be seeing that here we are and there's this world here.
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I mean that'd be great if we could continue to be staples of alt-rock radio. I don't take that for granted.
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But I think I have done right to save the vision in this way, even though I may die sooner because I did it; for I know the meaning of the vision is wise and beautiful and good; and you can see that I am only a pitiful old man after all.
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I got this feeling I'm gonna die before I get old. I don't know why. I just have this feeling.
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In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease--a terrible passing inclination to die of it.