Isaac Watts Quotes
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I am not content to entrust our free-speech rights to the good graces and whims of Congress and hope that politicians don't abuse their power.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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I had a couple CDs. But I never had that first concert experience, that first record thing.
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I always have one foot in the street, so I know not everyone wants to dress like the women they see in music videos.
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I don't do comedy so much although I would like to do a comedy.
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I love scary movies. The Shining and Don't Look Now are two of the best.
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I wasn't really conscious about 'The 39 Clues' movie when I wrote 'The Black Circle.'
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As the culture war is about irreconcilable beliefs about God and man, right and wrong, good and evil, and is at root a religious war, it will be with us so long as men are free to act on their beliefs.
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I try to get to the gym whenever I can, eat healthy, mostly protein and vegetables, avoid processed sugar and minimize carbs, but I don't feel like I need to go crazy if I want pasta now and then.
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Think about it: if the world could see how much adoption means from a cat's point of view, shelters would be empty.
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Who would be such a fool as to make advances to his reader, advances which might end in rejection or, worse still, in acceptance?
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The man that blushes is not quite a brute.
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It is not when he is working in the office but when he is lying idly on the sand that his soul utters, 'Life is beautiful.'
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I don't listen to the radio.
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'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.
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I loved the world of roller derby because I thought it was such an empowering metaphor, that you get out there and do it. It's such a rocker, athletic, capable, cool exhibitionist sport; it's about this great sort of camaraderie.
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I don't want to say I hear voices; well, actually I do hear voices, but I don't think it's supernatural. I think it's just that when characters are given enough texture and backbone, then lo and behold, they stand on their own.
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There are many who profess to be religious and speak of themselves as Christians, and, according to one such, "as accepting the scriptures only as sources of inspiration and moral truth," and then ask in their smugness: "Do the revelations of God give us a handrail to the kingdom of God, as the Lord's messenger told Lehi, or merely a compass?"
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I don't have stylistic loyalty. That's why people perceive me changing all the time. But there is a real continuity in my subject matter. As an artist of artifice, I do believe I have more integrity than any one of my contemporaries.
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I can't imagine finding success and then moving to a building in Manhattan with 300 strangers, like a bunch of little ants going home at night.
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Whatever brawls disturb the street, There should be peace at home.
