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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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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We are safer when communities respect the police and police respect communities.
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As for my own business, even that kind of surveying which I could do with most satisfaction my employers do not want. They would prefer that I should do my work coarsely and not too well, ay, not well enough. When I observe that there are different ways of surveying, my employer commonly asks which will give him the most land, not which is most correct.
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The freedom to express yourself without fear - that perhaps is something we in the U.S. take for granted. It's almost inconceivable to think we would be afraid to express our opinions or thoughts, but that's not true for all parts of the world now, and certainly not before World War II.
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Practice and practice and practice, and you'll make friends all over the world.
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What shall I do, singer and first-born, in a world where the deepest black is grey, and inspiration is kept in a thermos? with all this immensity in a measured world?
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We can fight Big Industry.
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I would not change my blest estate for all the world calls good or great.
