Isaac Watts Quotes
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When U.S.-based editors and columnists parachute into a news storm, it is often the stringers who keep us out of trouble, helping us glimpse the complexity behind the headlines.
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We had a good time mucking about during 'Band of Brothers' when we were young and single.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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No one ever became, or can become truly eloquent without being a reader of the Bible, and an admirer of the purity and sublimity of its language.
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We only have a certain amount of energy for each day. If we use it for the wrong purpose, if we focus on the negative or dwell on whoever hurt us, then we're not going to have the energy we need for the right purposes.
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The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.
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I thought I had the rights to The Lord of the Rings. I don't know how Jackson ended up with the rights.
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I never went to stage school or anything like that. It was always plays, productions at school and things like that. The thing for me with acting was it was the only thing I could fully concentrate on. I loved playing sports. I didn't really love studying.
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With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.
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It is impossible for me to estimate how many of my early impressions of the world, correct and the opposite, came to me through newspapers. Homicide, adultery, no-hit pitching, and Balkanism were concepts that, left to my own devices, I would have encountered much later in life.
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If Asian America exists, it is because of systemic racism.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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The same sort of thing happened in my dispute with the National Trust book: Follies: A National Trust Guide, which implied that the only pleasure you can get from Folly architecture is by calling the architect mad, and by laughing at the architecture.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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I love 'Drake and Josh.' It's supposed to have a demographic of ages 9-14, but really, it's 9-84. There is no demographic.
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We have to be able to poke fun at ourselves.
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I've forgiven all my enemies - even those who have stolen money from me.
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Love is amazing, so divine, demands my soul, my life, my all.
