Charles Dickens Quotes
I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
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Listen to the Bee Gees and you can learn to be a great writer.
Kara DioGuardi
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
Dan Feuerriegel
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The kindest word to describe my performance in school was Sloth.
Harrison Ford
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
Adam Levine Maroon 5
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The whole world is starting to realize that it was the most unwise thing for our society to have ignored women power, to run the society with male priorities.
Yoko Ono
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My parents spent 16 years hauling my butt to L.A. for audition after audition. I remember always hoping I could help take care of them because they took such good care of me.
Kaley Cuoco
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I remember all the way back in high school thinking about writing books. And, in fact, I've written a lot of stories. I've got dozens of stories I've written that no one's ever seen.
Patrick Carman
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
Manika
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
Calvin Peete
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I could battle rap forever, but it's a joke to me.
Fat Joe
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It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.
Adam Brody
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I don't study cricket too much. Whatever I have learned or experienced is through cricket I've played on the field, and whatever little I have watched.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
Naveen Jain
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It is so easy to forget that this is good that we're alive. We should be enjoying this gift of being alive.
Victoria Principal
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It takes people a while to trust you.
Karl Malone
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Edmund Burke
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Originality is dangerous.
Salman Rushdie
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I try to create an environment where, when we step onto the set, we're all in character.
Vin Diesel
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I am willing to work with anyone that wants to do what is best for this country.
Allen West
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The worst of all conditions in which a belligerent can find himself is to be utterly defenseless.
Carl von Clausewitz
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As happy a man as any in the world, for the whole world seems to smile upon me!
Samuel Pepys
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I don’t feel any vulgar gratitude to you. I almost feel as if you ought to be grateful to me, for giving you the opportunity of enjoying the luxury of generosity. I know you like it. For anything I can tell, I may have come into the world expressly for the purpose of increasing your stock of happiness.
Charles Dickens