Isaac Watts Quotes
There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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One thing you know, if you've been in technology a while, you're only as good as the last thing you did. No one wants an original iPod. No one wants an iPhone 3GS.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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No, I had not read any other comedian's book. Not that I don't enjoy other comedians; I'm just not a reader.
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If we are serious about providing upward mobility and building a skilled workforce, pre-school is the place to begin.
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I invented animals and birds – I had about two dozen. After working on them for six months, I sat down and just for fun wrote two dozen poems to accompany the drawings. It was for no one to every see, but a friend sent me in to an editor.
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I surrender to my directors. I do that because I respect them immensely. In fact, a director's talent scares me. I admit that they're more intelligent than me, and I submit to that, as an assistant director does. Even when I have suggestions to make, I don't state them strongly.
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I was four when I announced my ambition to write, eight when I began publishing such claims.
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New York for me is about work. If L.A. were to become a West Coast version of that, I'd shoot myself. The climate, the lifestyle - it really fits as the yin to my New York yang.
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I never think I have to prove something.
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I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
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I think about what I'm eating every day. I still have burgers and stuff that's not good for me sometimes, but I'm always trying to be careful. I don't just eat whatever I want.
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Folly often goes beyond her bounds; but Impudence knows none.
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What I've learned is you don't have to strive for perfection, but you do have to strive to be a very hard worker.
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I'm a good Jewish boy from Edison, New Jersey, so I went and saw 'Fiddler on the Roof' because you have to: that's part of your bar mitzvah experience.
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They say history doesn't repeat itself, but it rhymes.
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You can't write about a friend, you can only write about a former friend.
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No burden is so heavy for a man to bear as a succession of happy days.
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Simplicity is not an objective in art, but one achieves simplicity despite one's self by entering into the real sense of things.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I stuck out more in an English public school than I would have had I marched in a May Day parade with the Red Army in Moscow or sashayed the Yves St. Laurent catwalk with supermodels or hunted seals with the Inuit or - well, you get the idea.
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You could say that when you introduce humour to your work, you also step back a little from it. You create a distance.
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There's not a plant or flower below but makes Thy glories known, And clouds arise, and tempests blow by order from Thy throne; While all that borrows life from Thee is ever in Thy care; And everywhere that we can be, Thou, God art present there.
