“Mrs. Boffin and me, ma'am, are plain people, and we don't want to pretend to anything, nor yet to go round and round at anything because there's always a straight way to everything.”
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“Mrs Joe was a very clean housekeeper, but had an exquisite art of making her clenliness more umcomfortable and unacceptable than dirt itself. Cleanliness is next to godliness, and some people do the same by their religion.”
“There are people enough to tread upon me in my lowly state, without my doing outrage to their feelings by possessing learning. Learning ain't for me. A person like myself had better not aspire. If he is to get on in life, he must get on 'umbly, Master Copperfield!”
“You mustn't confuse the need for effective chairmanship, which is part of the job of the boss, along with the ability to take tough decisions and to lead people.”
“My approach is always to try to be straight with people, especially about what my party can achieve.”
“It is true that I entered parliament at the age of 23, and have now been representing the people of my constituency for over twenty years.”
“Far too many people hide behind their busy lifestyles”
“Every contrition for sin is apt to encourage a not quite charitable wish that other people should exhibit a similar contrition.”
“Since I moved to Blackpool, I've met a lot of great people, and if it wasn't for them, I wouldn't be as successful as I was because I'm settled off the pitch.”
“I get recognised in the street, but that's more from all the Scottish people who are down in Blackpool on their holidays.”
“What have I to do with millions [of people]? The eighty I know despise me.”
“It really bothers me when I see people doing my mother in drag. I mean, just imagine if you saw people doing that with your mother.”
“I absolutely believe in assimilation. I don't believe I'm any different from straight people. My wants and needs are the same as theirs. I don't look at sexual orientation as that big of a deal. It's just an orientation.”
“People who don't have gender dysphoria aren't going to catch it by watching me dance on television.”
“Ugly people kill people all the time. But when pretty people did, it got attention.”
“There will be time to diet when people stopped killing one another.”
“I love anybody funny. I think my ten-year-old sister is really funny. She makes me laugh way more than most people do.”
“People choose the most flattering photos of themselves to put on Facebook. Text messages can be vague and confusing. But conversations are confusing too. And some people wear lots of makeup. I think it's just hard to be a person.”
“It's uncomfortable to just say the first thing that pops into your head, but you have to when you're speaking in front of people. A lot of times I'll say something I don't even believe. I've never actually used "pass" before.”
“I do think that people yearn for connection and intimacy, and that they're hard things to achieve.”