Isaac Watts Quotes
The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
Quotes to Explore
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Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.
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I did enjoy football, but the injury factor for me, you know, I had so many issues. I don't know how long my career would've been.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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From my undergraduate days, I've always been interested in the major philosophical questions that don't seem to have an answer that everyone agrees on.
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One of the things I've thought about 'Midnight's Children' is that it is a novel which puts a Muslim family at the centre of the Indian experience.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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I never read my reviews... not even the good ones. Barbra Streisand once told me, if just one person in the audience doesn't applaud, it bothers her. I'm the same way. I'd be devastated to read that someone didn't like my work.
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The first two books that I did by myself were long stories in verse. I knew I could do that because I'd written a lot in verse. But, verse stories are hard to sell, so my editor encouraged me to try writing in prose.
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One thing that founders always underestimate is how hard it is to recruit.
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Prayer is an act of love; words are not needed. Even if sickness distracts from thoughts, all that is needed is the will to love.
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There may be a long list of things to do, but really, there is just one thing on the list at any time. If you think of it like that, the whole world looks different and you can stay quite calm. Maybe everything will get done eventually and maybe not. You can always have hope.
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There are no rules when it comes to songwriting, so I'd turn Carter family songs from the 1930s into pop songs.
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It is hard to think of practical applications of the black hole. Because practical applications are so remote, many people assume we should not be interested. But this quest to understand the world is what defines us as human beings.
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I want to be able to sing well, but I have the worst voice in the world.
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L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.
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Every actor wants to do a love story, and courtesy T-Series, I got to do two back-to-back.
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If you just did a horror tone throughout an entire movie you almost, as an audience, can get a little bit used to it. But if you're laughing one minute and, you know, somebody's doing something quite horrific the next minute, it's a little more shocking.
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I don't have goals in life.
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India has a very good tradition in tennis.
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Cinema is a little over 100 years old, and a lot of what we do is built around film emulsion. Those things were calibrated for white skin. We've always placed powder on skin to dull the light. But my memory of growing up in Miami is this moist, beautiful black skin.
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You don't cheat anybody out of their experience, whatever it is.
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In my time it was different. When I knew the wind was strong, I attacked myself to make the race as hard as possible.
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I think that some books are more successful than others to certain readers. People who read my books for the humor, they're going to love one book. People who read my books for the mystery, they might not like that book quite as much.
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The very substance which last week was grazing in the field, waving in the milk pail, or growing in the garden, is now become part of the man.
