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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I think we perhaps are, with sleep, where we were with smoking about 50 years ago, in that we had all of the science, and it was right there for the public discussion, but it's not yet adequately sort of percolated out into policy or even just public wisdom.
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We humans are really good at forming groups to compete, and then dissolving the groups and reforming them along different lines to compete in a different way.
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I get to do all the styles of music that I love. There's no boundaries; there's nobody holding on to me saying I can't do that.
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World War One is an important part of Ireland's multi-layered history during which tens of thousands Irish people lost their lives.
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We can be tempted to make the life of faith a matter of mere sentiment, thus blunting its power to inspire a consistent vision of the world and a rigorous dialogue with the many other visions competing for the minds and hearts of our contemporaries.
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'No one is useless in this world,' retorted the Secretary, 'who lightens the burden of it for any one else.'
