Isaac Watts Quotes
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I always ask, why can't I be just like Cary Grant or something.
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I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.
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There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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I wouldn't mind working with Outkast. I'm a big fan of them.
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I think subsuming political and economic conflicts into some grand 'clash of civilisations' theory or 'the West versus the rest' binary is a particularly insidious form of ideological deception.
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For me, one of the downfalls of electronic music is that it can feel a little soulless or robotic.
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I was not a fan of the Bush administration, as I think many of us were not.
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Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be discovered; there is only error to be exposed.
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I'd rather make the cut in the Crosby than win another Oscar.
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I don't cook very well at all. I'm the girl that can't make scrambled eggs.
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I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.
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I can't say I gave up totally my passion for women but almost.
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I see people who work on their look and they work on their poster and their website and you know, the music will speak for itself no matter what. So if you put maybe like 95% of your energy on music and 5% on playing out and telling people about it. That's kind of a good equation.
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Joanne' is a progression for me. It was about going into the studio and forgetting that I was famous.
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All I had done for five years was work 18 hours a day all over the world. I needed to step back and distance myself from it.
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Old maids like the houseless and unemployed poor, should not ask for a place and an occupation in the world: the demand disturbs the happy and the rich.
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I haven't played EDC since 2011. Normally, my sound fits a little bit better in mixed festivals.
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I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.
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You have to ask if the country would have been ready for Barack Obama if we hadn't been prepared by Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. If they hadn't already been in positions of enormous power and influence - secretary of state, secretary of defence - you know what I mean?
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
