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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Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.
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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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Today, I don't even think that people like [James Baldwin] are possible. He would not have that much room.
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I don't think we can go back to the old days. But I think that what the government needs to do is it needs to make sure that the pricing is fair, that you don't have monopolies out there, so that people don't have a chance to compete fairly.
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I should allow only my heart to have imagination; and for the rest rely on memory, that long drawn sunset of one's personal truth.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
