John Clare Quotes
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,My friends forsake me like a memory lost:I am the self-consumer of my woes,They rise and vanish in oblivious host,Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:And yet I am, and live with shadows tost
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I'll sleep when I'm dead.
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Kings are more prone to mistrust the good than the bad; and they are always afraid of the virtues of others.
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I have a family to support. And I'm not always going to be doing exactly what I want to do.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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When I told the people of Northern Ireland that I was an atheist, a woman in the audience stood up and said, 'Yes, but is it the God of the Catholics or the God of the Protestants in whom you don't believe?
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.
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Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
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Be fond of the man who jests at his scars, if you like; but never believe he is being on the level with you.
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Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.
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Music I can discover a part of myself that I haven't been able to for a long time, and acting is the opposite. I'm in love with both of them and I would never choose one over the other.
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'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
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In the absence of justice, what is sovereignty but organized robbery?
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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Every time you finish a book, you have a terrible feeling that there's just never going to be another one. But fortunately, so far, the next one has always shown up.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I've been sober now for a couple of years and I'm taking my sobriety very seriously - one day at a time and I am moving forward in my career.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
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I think being a partner with the studios and networks and, more importantly, being a great source for consumers to watch that programming is always going to be a part of our programming mix.
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As adults, if our top priorities are constantly directed toward the acquisition of more and better worldly goods, it will not take long to increase our love in those directions. The purchase of a larger house or a nicer car or a more expensive boat may cause us to sacrifice our resources and develop an unwise love for these symbols of success and pleasure. We learn to love that which we serve, and we serve that which we love.
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The Classic games were Classic because, like classical music or architecture, they strove to give life and weight to ideals of order and proportion, to provide a vision of timelessness. In 'Double Dragon,' we can see the cracks in the brick, the mold growing on the drainage pipes, the unmistakable deterioration of the world we live in.
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What I like to call 'journalism of depth' is the media that regards the collective conscience of the masses to be its point of departure. It is the media that believes, as a matter of principle, in the potential capabilities of the people and respects their choices.
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I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,My friends forsake me like a memory lost:I am the self-consumer of my woes,They rise and vanish in oblivious host,Like shades in love and death's oblivion lost:And yet I am, and live with shadows tost
