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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The Enron scandal is worthy of the highest level of scrutiny, both because of the enormity of the crimes that may have been committed and because of what the largest bankruptcy in American history has already begun to reveal about the weaknesses in our nation's corporate structures and regulatory oversight.
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To die for an idea; it is unquestionably noble. But how much nobler it would be if men died for ideas that were true!
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I like practicing law.
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Before I was making music, I was homeless. I didn't have all the girls or any friends - and now I have everything that I wanted.
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Poetry is the art of substantiating shadows, and of lending existence to nothing.
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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
