Charles Dickens Quotes
It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.
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I think the paradigm is shifting with regard to women and what we bring to the industry. I feel very blessed.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
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I say that I represent this movement because my intellectual allegiances are clearly European, not African.
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Some government workers are dedicated and work hard, but most of them are just waiting to retire.
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If something appeals, something appeals. I don't think I'm particularly calculated about it. I know I have an alarm bell that goes off in my head where something feels like it has no creative integrity to it at all, and it's just about making money.
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The whole period has taught me that I enjoy being part of an ensemble rather than just a front man. Don't get me wrong - I enjoy that too, but I get more enjoyment out of really listening to everyone.
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Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.
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I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.
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An Atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church. An atheist believes that deed must be done instead of prayer said. An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death. He wants disease conquered, poverty vanished, war eliminated.
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No one can depute authority. It comes too much from personal accidents, and too little from reason or law to be handed over to others.
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Strange that creatures without backbones have the hardest shells.
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The grave will fall in upon him who digs it.
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In one respect, it's easier to open a restaurant in New York because you get more media attention than anywhere else. Almost everyone will try a new place once, irrespective of the reviews, because it's a spectator sport.
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People think our work is monumental because it's art, but human beings do much bigger things: they build giant airports, highways for thousands of miles, much, much bigger than what we create.
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I just kept touring and touring until it became second nature to go onstage, perform, and sing.
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The trouble with talking too fast is you may say something you haven't thought of yet.
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I think it's inconsistent to tell the American people that you oppose the war and, yet, you continue to vote to fund the war. Because every time you vote to fund the war, you're reauthorizing the war all over again.
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From fried witchetty grubs to gold-plated turnips, when you're a writer you never know what's going to appear on your plate next. It keeps a woman alert, it does.
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Well, I was very lucky. I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.
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I saw all the suffering that Kurt Cobain went through. I saw this real vibrant person turn into a real shy, timid, withdrawn person.
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I'd have liked to have leant against walls in thrillers.
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I love to sing and perform. It is what I do and love. It completes my life.
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It was darkly rumoured that the butler, regarding him with favour such as that stern man had never shown before to mortal boy, had sometimes mingled porter with his table beer to make him strong.
