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Charles Dickens Quotes

There are not a few among the disciples of charity who require, in their vocation, scarcely less excitement than the votaries of pleasure in theirs.

Charles Dickens

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: english
Birth: February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870

Topics

Charity Excitement Pleasure Vocation

I've always kind of lived in my own world.

World Kind My Own Always Own Lived

Why watch someone kissing when people really close their eyes when they kiss?

Eyes Kiss People Someone Why Watch

I wouldn't trade my career with anybody's. I'd trade a few movies with Tom Hanks - 'Apollo 13' and 'Forrest Gump' - but other than that, I love my career.

Love Career Movies Trade Apollo Few

My children are 10 and three, and the longing and the need for them is incredibly powerful.

Children Powerful Three Need Longing

It is always an eerie experience to sit among Bashar al-Assad's soldiers.

Experience Soldiers Always Sit Among

There are no points of the compass on the chart of true patriotism.

Robert Charles Winthrop

Patriotism True Compass Memorial Day

For most of my life, I didn't pay attention to birds.

Jonathan Franzen

Life Birds My Life Attention Pay

Intimacy comes from being yourself on the stage and making the audience feel, without trying, that you're sittin' down there with 'em, playing, and that can happen in a big hall, if you have a good audience that want to listen.

Good Yourself Feel Trying You Down

I worked for a lot of candidates, in tough campaigns that lost. Most of my candidates lost until Bill Clinton. There was always a point where you look in their eyes and they knew it was over. And there was never that point with Clinton. He never quit. He never gave up.

Eyes Tough You Look Lost Quit

I never went to high school. I never really finished eighth grade. I was kicked out of seventh grade once and eighth grade twice. Mainly for not showing up and not doing it. Then I went to an alternative high school for part of what would have been ninth grade and part of what would have been 10th grade.

School High School Doing Showing Up

My ideal travel companions are my family.

Pharrell Williams

Family Travel Ideal Companions

Through my career at ExxonMobil, I've been actively involved in United Way campaigns.

Career Way Through United Been

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