Isaac Watts Quotes

Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

Isaac Watts

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• Slumber

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• The people I admire unreservedly are my parents. They are the real pioneers of Africa in many ways. They were born and raised in rural Africa during the colonial period. They are the ones who came to the U.S. long before I did.

  

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• One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.

  

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• No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

  

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• Gosh, I couldn't even talk right until I was about 6 years old or something like that.

  

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• It's like a painter with various layers of paint. I start with a drum loop and add keyboards, and then melodies start to take shape. The vocals happen later. I've never really done therapy before, but it's a form of therapy. Everything else falls away.

  

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• I am closer and closer to reaching my childhood dream. This is really exciting! I will continue to work hard, to focus on each tournament I play.

  

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• Commercial hit films such as 'Bajrangi Bhaijaan,' 'Talaash,' and 'Kick' had big superstars to sell them; that may not have been the case if it were just me.

  

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• Every story is organic, and every story finds its own ending.

  

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• I'm from a generation of fantastic actresses. It's a big pool of really wonderful actresses, and so many of them we never even get to see on the screen anymore.

  

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• It had been almost 30 years since the LPGA has played in Mexico. We are definitely looking forward to playing there next year and also coming back to play in Mexico in a month or so.

  

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• I am far more distress-avoidant than I am joy-seeking.

  

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• There's always, I guess, a philosophy that if you come in, you want to change all the parts, you want to change everything over. I've always tried to preach that consistency and continuity are very, very important. So if I know the baseball people, and I know they're competent and could do the job, I don't see any reason to replace them.

  

  Pat Gillick
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• On the whole, actors shout when they don't know what they're doing, trying to make an impact.

  

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• What makes the production of my work so expensive? The whole installation thing - the construction, the objects, the technology. It really adds up.

  

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• The pretended admission of a fault on our part creates an excellent impression.

  

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• I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.

  

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• I invented my life by taking for granted that everything I did not like would have an opposite, which I would like.

  

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• I guess something people wouldn't expect me to listen to are artists like Alicia Keys. But she is so incredibly talented. She has this huge voice and great work ethic, which I really respect in an artist. She is also very humble and gracious and devoted to her skill.

  

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• I never wanted to sound clean and pretty. I always wanted to have kind of a certain natural quality to my voice, and I wish it were more rough than it is.

  

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• There's so many ways to become a spiritual person and that's why a lot of people do drugs is that they're looking for something more and they're not satisfied. Even if they don't know their spirituality, they're searching for something more and they find it or they think they do with drugs, and that's what I thought for a long time.

  

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• I am trying to be the girl I didn't have. That's important to me. I have to be conscious of that. In this weird, dark, small, very intimate way, there's a girl out there who relies on me. And that's super important to me, and I don't want to let her down.

  

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  • Important
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• Tis the voice of the sluggard I heard him complain,You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again.

  

  Isaac Watts
  • Voice
  • Heard
  • Complaining