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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A person that says, 'Losing is not difficult,' I don't even want to be around that person. And obviously, that person has never won anything relevant in their life.
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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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I rolled up my sleeves and said, 'I want to make a mark on this world.'
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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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I've never had to fend for a child's life, which sounds very terrifying.
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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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There is an enormous pressure placed on gay novelists because they are the only spokespeople. The novelist's first obligation is to be true to his own vision, not to be some sort of common denominator or public relations man to all gay people.
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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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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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Im not someone whos ever said anything definitive about his work. In my life also I have very little fixed form. I can change overnight.
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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.
