Charles Dickens Quotes
All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
Quotes to Explore
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I sort of wrongfully judged 'Mamma Mia!' for so long. I thought of it as a jukebox musical that I wasn't interested in. I was so wrong.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I think I need security.
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Violence would be a huge gift to those who want a divided Lebanon.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Breaking up is hard to do... so it's essential to keep getting wiser - and wiser - about what healthy love is all about.
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My creativity all comes from the same place. I wear one very comfortable, large hat.
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Arithmetic is where the answer is right and everything is nice and you can look out of the window and see the blue sky - or the answer is wrong and you have to start over and try again and see how it comes out this time.
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Now that I'm gone, I tell you, don't smoke.
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My goal? To test out every diet and exercise regimen on planet earth and figure out which work best. I sweated, I cooked, I learned to pole dance. In the end, I lost weight, lowered my cholesterol and doubled my energy level. I feel better than I ever have.
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My brother was a big marathoner. He was a great collegiate runner at Beloit College. He won his conference's races, and he did tons of marathons. I would go out and run with him every once in a while just to hang out with him.
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The 1957 crisis in Little Rock, brought about by the desegregation of Little Rock Central High School, was a huge part of the march toward freedom and opportunity in America.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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Before 9/11, I was playing a wide range of characters. I would play a lover, a cop, a father. As long as I could create the illusion of the character, the part was given to me. But after 9/11, something changed. We became the villains, the bad guys. I don't mind to play the bad guy as long as the bad guy has a base.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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Expanding background checks will help create a uniform standard for all gun purchases and prevent criminals and the dangerously mentally ill from obtaining powerful weapons.
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On a very gloomy dismal day, just such a one as it ought to be, I went to see Westminster Abbey.
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Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
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Do the math: You never settle for less than the whole if you knew the half.
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others.
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This crowded world of Space was perfectly real to him. How he had got to it I do not know. Perhaps his mind, dwelling constantly on the problem, had unsealed some atrophied cell and restored the old instinct. Anyhow, he was living his daily life with a foot in each world.
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All the housemaid hopes is, happiness for 'em - but marriage is a lottery, and the more she thinks about it, the more she feels the independence and the safety of a single life.
