William Cowper Quotes
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I changed the city of New York. I gave people back their morale.
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Management manages by making decisions and by seeing that those decisions are implemented.
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It's hard to absorb and to allow all that attention and accolades for 'Rent' because the rest of the country doesn't know who we are. Once I walk out of the door of 'Rent,' and I'm on the subway, it doesn't matter. It's an exaggerated sense of fame.
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Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.
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But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.
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Normally, some people think about 50 as a big moment in life. I kind of think 30 because in your baseball career, 30 was considered on top kind of looking at the end of your career. So I remember thinking about 30 in different ways, but 50 just seems like another step right now.
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One of the aspects of form that I have been very interested in is stasis - the concept of form which is not so directional in time, not so much climactic form, but rather form which allows time, to stand still.
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We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
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I have a great pack of female friends, but I also have a lot of guy friends. I believe that platonic relationship is entirely possible.
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My parents were both born in Virginia, of undistinguished families - second families, perhaps I should say.
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I'd really like to go back to New Japan because it feels like home, and I love that place so much.
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The more that TV pundits reduce serious debates into silly arguments, and big issues into sound bites, our citizens turn away.
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My main object is to write, to keep learning. I always try to perfect my composition. But I do like writing film and opera music. I believe that it fulfills the needs of particular situations.
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In my mind, numbers and words are far more than squiggles of ink on a page. They have form, color, texture and so on. They come alive to me, which is why as a young child I thought of them as my 'friends.'
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Dad was the first man I fell in love with. He was a very funny man. He grew up in the East End of London and was very dynamic, and I understood why my mother fell in love with him.
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I most want to be remembered for being as great a mother to James and Lennon as my mum was to me and my brother Jamie.
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Well, I was sort of a jack-of-all-trades in show business for a long time. I was a singer and a dancer and then I got a job as an actor.
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I love the sound and temperament of an upright piano.
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I like boys with humor.
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I became a fitness fiend when I was about 17 or 18.
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I think egg boiling is the hardest thing I've ever done, but I can make a tiramisu anytime you want.
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I grew up a daughter of a United States Marine, a daughter of a man so proud to be an American.
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I am absolutely delighted that the international community has chosen Schwarz-Schilling to be my successor. He knows this country, he loves this country... and I cannot think of nobody better to take on this job.
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In indolent vacuity of thought.
