Charles Dickens Quotes
Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
Quotes to Explore
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My mother told me I should be a secretary, but I wanted to be an actress from when I was very young.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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I think men, growing up, you have to go through some form of hardship. You've got to harden the metal.
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Every artist was first an amateur.
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I can't imagine playing a boring gig. Like, a boring audience without reaction, I will play against them.
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Wrestlers are a little more dedicated than, and are different from, the other people, which may be strange.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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The liberals will surely argue that every person has the right to fall in love with no regard to religion, creed or gender, but I am not that liberal.
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When a marriage culture fails, sexual desire no longer unites; instead it fragments.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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America did not invade Iraq because Iraqis are Muslims. Oil, money, economic interests. Who knows? But it was not because Iraqis are Muslims.
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We all know what it's like to go through growing pains and have awkward moments talking to someone you have a crush on.
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Various channels of dialogue must be kept open to build trust. I will meet North Korea's leader if it is needed to develop relations between the two Koreas.
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I've always wanted to be an actress as well as a fashion designer.
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Have you ever walked along a shoreline, only to have your footprints washed away? That's what Alzheimer's is like. The waves erase the marks we leave behind, all the sand castles. Some days are better than others.
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I'm sure I wouldn't have been asked to judge the Man Booker if it weren't for 'Downton.'
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Growing Greener doesn't produce money for farmland preservation or open space preservation.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.
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The question was never whether the United States, E.U., NATO, Arab League, U.N. Security Council, and African Union could together using economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, and military attacks to bring Qaddafi down. The question was always how much time, how much blood, and what damage to NATO.
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The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.
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Maybe one day the world will change, that we'll be in a luxurious position of being able to debate whether or not it's inherently wrong to eat animals, but the question doesn't matter right now.
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Stranger, pause and ask thyself the question, Canst thou do likewise? If not, with a blush retire.
