Isaac Watts Quotes
At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
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From my point of view, I'm a totally normal person! Really! I have a family. I have kids. I have a house... I don't have a dog.
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Most families had four, five brothers. But because it was just me and Darryl, we had to be twice as strong.
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I do think that the success, although still not complete... in the recognition of equal rights... to all Americans, regardless of color, creed and so forth, was also one of the best stories we've had to report.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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To disclose too much of one's inventions and achievements is one and the same thing as to give up the fruit of one's ingenuity.
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Sometimes, success almost haunts you. You want to be the best at everything you do and know you have to work hard.
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Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.
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An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.
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For evil in the open is but evil from within that has been let out. The main battlefield for good is not the open ground of the public arena but the small clearing of each heart.
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I wanted just a song to sing, and there came a certain point where I couldn't sing anything. So I had to write what I wanted to sing 'cos nobody else was writing what I wanted to sing.
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The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
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My mother and father had a terrible marriage. They celebrated their wedding anniversary one year with their friends. Why did they celebrate? Maybe because they had lasted so many years without killing each other.
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Because I've been so blessed with a background in nursing and spent so much time with patients at a really intimate, vulnerable time in their lives, the one lesson I've learned is that you never turn down a challenge where you can keep your creative integrity and your heart and soul and your sense of self.
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Character is power.
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Because my father was an army officer, I was told to enter the military school during the war. Luckily or unluckily, one month before the entrance examination, I got polio, which made my right arm numb. It's still numb.
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There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.
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When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.
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If you try to bring 'teen drama,' you end up doing nothing but pouting.
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I'm delighted with how my career unfolded.
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As a general rule, when you comment on a blog, make it knowledgeable or witty and, most of all, relevant to that post - then, simply sign it with your name and your book title. Resist the urge to brag or sell your book.
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The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due.
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I think I've got a funny face.
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The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
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At books, or work, or healthy play, Let all my years be passed; That I may give for every day A good account at last.
