Charles Dickens Quotes

"Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.

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• Faith and prayer are the vitamins of the soul; man cannot live in health without them.

  

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• If taxes are laid upon us in any shape without our having a legal representation where they are laid, are we not reduced from the character of free subjects to the miserable state of tributary slaves? We claim British rights not by charter only! We are born to them.

  

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• I was a complete outsider in high school.

  

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• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths pure theatre.

  

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• Mass demand has been created almost entirely through the development of advertising.

  

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• Love is sweeping the country.

  

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• When it comes to guys, my dad is the measure of the perfect man. And that's a pretty tough standard to match up to.

  

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• We did not go to that many movies in a theater in the little town I grew up in.

  

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• It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.

  

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• All in all it was my intention to hold both the black and the white clientele by voicing the different kinds of songs in their customary tongues.

  

  Chuck Berry
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• I'm trying to do it honestly and genuinely; if some of it's not working to your taste, what can I say?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
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• The most reckless sinner against his own conscience has always in the background the consolation that he will go on in this course only this time, or only so long, but that at such a time he will amend. We may be assured that we do not stand clear with our own consciences so long as we determine or project, or even hold it possible, at some future time to alter our course of action.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
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• We've made our list and want consumers to check it twice, ... Preventing needles tragedies and providing a safe environment are the best holiday gifts parents can provide their children.

  

  Hal Stratton
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• The result, the Walker Colt, was one of the most effective and deadly pieces of technology ever devised, one that would soon kill more men in combat than any sidearm since the Roman short sword.

  

  S. C. Gwynne
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• In retrospect I can see that my desire to create abstractions has become more and more radical. Art should not be delivering a report on reality, but should be looking at what's behind something.

  

  Andreas Gursky
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• I was lucky. I had some really good people that were just here there and wherever who would come into my life that I felt would answer questions. I mean, I had some very powerful questions myself for what this earth was all about.

  

  Linda Blair
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• In the old-fashioned sitcoms, to be gay was, in itself, funny, and you laughed at the characters rather than with them.

  

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• Love, faithful love, recalled thee to my mind--But how could I forget thee?

  

  William Wordsworth
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• I play in Metallica, and I have fun in Metallica. I tell you, I am the luckiest man on the planet because we have a good time and we're happy. When we put on our guitars, we're teenagers again, and that's where the fun comes in.

  

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• John Dalton's records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

  

  Isaac Asimov
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• My visions and fantasies are pretty standard. The only difference is I got to do it, while most of us haven't. Beyond that, I'm a pretty standard guy. Give me a gal with a sense of humor, acidic wit, who's read a few books and has a body like a Swedish speed skater, and I'm quite content.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
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• "Madam," replied Mr. Micawber, "it is my intention to register such a vow on the virgin page of the future.

  

  Charles Dickens
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