Charles Dickens Quotes
'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
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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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I think that it's a vital moment now for Russian democracy to convince people that it's only our actions, our joined actions and protests that could force Kremlin to reconsider its plans to abolish presidential elections.
Garry Kasparov -
Joy Division finished the 1970s on a high. Our debut album, 'Unknown Pleasures,' was doing well; we'd just finished a hugely enjoyable and successful tour. The band's profile was higher than it had ever been, and it seemed to be growing by the day.
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I'm good friends with Jay Leno, good friends with Ed O'Neill, Melanie Fiona and Russell Simmons.
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I was born with fairly serious scoliosis, and I did not walk at all until I was about two-and-a-half years old.
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Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.
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'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
