Charles Dickens Quotes
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.Charles Dickens
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
K. Flay -
I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
Orson Welles -
I've always tried to fight against, 'Oh, who's that small funny actress? Let's get her.'
Imelda Staunton -
No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
Fernando Pessoa -
I was one of those kids that could just show up and take the test and do well on it. I didn't study a whole lot.
Wendy Davis -
When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
Morna Anne Murray
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When I went to Fashion Week, I was very disappointed by how few women of color were in those shows. I do speak to the younger girls, and I hear them when they say they're not getting the big contracts or into the big shows. So, to sum it up, it seems that whenever we take a couple of steps forward, we take a few more backwards.
Beverly Johnson -
Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
Wayne Thiebaud -
A conscious decision to eliminate certain details and include selective bits of personal experiences or perceptual nuances, gives the painting more of a multi-dimension than when it is done directly as a visual recording. This results in a kind of abstraction... and thus avoids the pitfalls of mere decoration.
Wayne Thiebaud -
You're always better off if you quit smoking; it's never too late.
Loni Anderson -
It's big for us because we know the other teams are right around us for the playoffs. (But) we are not approaching games like that. We are just trying to win the game. We don't feel like we need to settle for the eighth or seventh seed, we feel like we can get as high as we want to.
Allen Iverson -
The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.
Umberto Eco
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One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be.
Barack Obama -
Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately.
Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli -
I had an amazing childhood.
Abbie Cornish -
I think I'm a bit odd.
Tamsin Greig -
Because right is right, to follow right Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Alfred Lord Tennyson -
I think the Romans must have aggravated one another very much, with their noses. Perhaps, they became the restless people they were, in consequence.
Charles Dickens