Isaac Watts Quotes
Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

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I always knew I had a voice and I've always known I could sing, but I was too shy to let it come out. I think it's the hardest thing to do, to sing in front of people. When I finally let go and did it, I realized it's what I'm most talented at and what I love to do the most.
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I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.
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Finish last in your league and they call you idiot. Finish last in medical school and they call you doctor.
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I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.
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I get mad when people call me an action movie star. Indiana Jones is an adventure film, a comic book, a fantasy.
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I wrote music as soon as I knew notation.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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The whole edifice of modern physics is built up on the fundamental hypothesis of the atomic or molecular constitution of matter.
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If my life was a song the title would be 'Naima'.
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A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
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In the Ghetto, I'd been trying to write for years.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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Art is vice. You don't marry it legitimately, you rape it.
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Sittin' in the mornin' sun, I'll be sittin' when the evenin' comes. Watchin' the ships roll in; And I watch 'em roll away again. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Watchin' the tide roll away. Sittin' on the dock of the bay, Wastin' time.
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Underwater, I experience space with my body. I'll see a school of fish gathering and moving together and I'll exclaim, 'This is architecture.'
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I'm open. All of my situations have made me who I am.
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I hope lots of people will join the solidarity march on May 7th and I hope things will change.
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I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be.
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I have the same criteria for choosing roles as I have always had: fantastic writing and complicated characters.
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Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.