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 have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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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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My family is full of musicians, and a couple of times a year we get together and jam at my cousin's studio. We improvise and have a great time.
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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 listen to older music like AC/DC.
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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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Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'
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I remember when I did the pilot, and I though no network is going to want to do this. How could that happen? A half Chinese guy walking the old west that doesn't fire one gun and never gets on a horse?
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There's plenty to read about keeping your sanity while raising children, but it's all common-sense stuff about task division and taking breaks and the relentlessly repeated magic of date night with your spouse. What's missing is some 'tude.
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Pay-per-view would deprive many kids of the delight of seeing the Olympics.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
