Charles Dickens Quotes
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
Quotes to Explore
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We keep, in science, getting a more and more sophisticated view of our essential ignorance.
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I'm an actor, and I like having attention, I guess. There's a reason I like being on stage. There's a reason I like being in front of a camera. It's that interaction.
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Our party, I can tell you, is very transparent; we believe in our credentials. Our credentials are our only credibility; we are not going to compromise on that; we are the commoners.
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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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I get homesick.
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I have only got down on to paper, really, three types of people: the person I think I am, the people who irritate me, and the people I'd like to be.
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Sometimes, I find that just the simplest, cleanest things that are intelligently performed are funniest to me.
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'EIla Enchanted' began in a marvelous writing course at New York City's The New School.
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Conflict is very much a state of mind. If you're not in that state of mind, it doesn't bother you.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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You learn from the things that happen in your career. You get up and down. You never give up. All the things that happened in my career, thank God it happened early rather than late in my career.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Honestly, I get more recognized for 'Three Men and a Little Lady' than 'Harry Potter'.
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Why does Israel always have to suffer for others to feel bad for it?
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It's very flattering when you look into the crowd and people have made an effort and dressed in your style.
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Hemingway was a jerk.
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Rock is much more malleable than ideas.
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There are many people who say, 'I write for myself.' I think that if you write and publish, then you write for your readers, not just for yourself. Many writers say that they write to be loved. I place myself among those writers.
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The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
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The sky itself is the eighth color of the rainbow, spread over the whole sky for us, all the time.
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The world in the '90s had seemed somewhat stable. There was talk of the end of history, a calm consensus around where we were all going. Consumer capitalism with some sort of social conscience. Then 9/11 happened, and that illusion was blown out of the water.
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'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
