Isaac Watts Quotes
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I am born and raised in the Bronx. Where I grew up, it is a really working-class neighborhood and it does give you a really good work ethic.
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When I'm out the street, I get people whispering behind me, 'Isn't that Jennifer Lawrence?' I should start doing autographs - although if you stood us side by side, you wouldn't make that mistake.
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My writing has been largely concerned with the depicting of Negro life in America.
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I guess the reality is, everybody today has so many gadgets.
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I would love to play a superhero. I wish I could be in 'The Avengers,' kicking butt.
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No matter who the prime minister is, incremental changes take place. The economy moves on.
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I don't need a piece of paper to suggest that I can commit myself.
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Globalization is exposing new fault lines - between urban and rural communities, for example.
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As an artist, all I want is to be a part of good films.
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A minister has to be able to read a clock. At noon, it's time to go home and turn up the pot roast and get the peas out of the freezer.
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Sudan expelled bin Laden on May 18, 1996, to Afghanistan.
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It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is what you think about.
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The Qur'an is in many ways far less concrete than the Bible, relying on the esoteric more often than the apparent.
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The waves belong to the Ganges, not the Ganges to the waves. A man cannot realize God unless he gets rid of all such egotistic ideas as 'I am such an important man' or 'I am so and so'. Level the mound of 'I' to the ground by dissolving it with tears of devotion.
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Because what it turns out is, is that if a - the best way for a country to reduce its debt is to grow really fast, and to generate more income.
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Let him go abroad to a distant country; let him go to some place where he is not known. Don't let him go to the devil, where he is known.
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Even the good she found in him was really the goodness she had put in him, the goodness he had put on himself as a disguise in order to get her to marry him.
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It's like a battle, trying to find the right words to say at the right time.
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It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.
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Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease.
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I think it's always wise to be concerned about any of the characters in 'Star Wars,' right?
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A great many wise sayings have been uttered about the effects of solitary retirement; but the motives which impel men to seek it are not more various than the effects which it produces on different individuals. One thing is certain, that those who can with truth affirm that they are "never less alone than when alone," might generally add that they never feel more lonely than when not alone.
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We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil.
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To prevent and suppress rising resentment is wise and glorious, is manly and divine.
