John Clare Quotes
To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.
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I'm never doing anything by rote. I'm only on thin ice, and I think that that's a good place to be. I feel like when you push yourself like that, the rewards can be pretty great.
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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Outside of the mindless sitcoms that the networks thrive on, people able to think generally consider most entertainment is escape in one form or another.
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The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
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No one ever complains about a speech being too short!
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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One of the problems with putting Huck Finn into a movie or on the stage is, you always make the white people stupid and racist. The point is, they don't know they're racist.
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I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.
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I get into all sorts of trouble with my publicists and with newspapers because I won't do photographs.
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All right, every day ain't going to be the best day of your life, don't worry about that. If you stick to it you hold the possibility open that you will have better days.
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The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
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Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.
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The basic principle is I command, and my employees carry it out immediately.
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I don't seek out love or relationships, just because my schedule is crazy.
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I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.
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There appears to be something to do with vehicles and movement that stimulates my writing.
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I never had a serious injury that kept me out of a big competition. Now everyone has injuries – to their feet or their knees or their backs.
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Surprising as it may seem, this study indicates that similar conditions are best for all sorts of races.
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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I have always thought that the place where you sleep or the place you share with your partner should be separate from the place where you write. The domestic rituals and details somehow kill the imagination. They kill the demon in me.
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No one likes to be criticized, of course, but if the things we successfully strive for do not make our future selves happy, or if the things we unsuccessfully avoid do, then it seems reasonable (if somewhat ungracious) for them to cast a disparaging glance backward and wonder what the hell we were thinking.
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To-morrow comes, true copy of to-day,And empty shadow of what is to be;Yet cheated Hope on future still depends,And ends but only when our being ends.
