William Cowper Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions.
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I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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All I ever wanted to do is make music.
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Doing stunt work is risky, but it's something I enjoy.
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I've always sung in choirs and acapella groups, but when I was in college, I finally started writing songs and playing with a band, and that ignited a desire to do it full time and pour everything I had into it.
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Elves have this superhuman strength, yet they're so graceful. Tolkien created them to be angelic spirits, but I also saw Legolas as something out of the Seven Samurai.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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You compose because you want to somehow summarize in some permanent form your most basic feelings about being alive, to set down... some sort of permanent statement about the way it feels to live now, today.
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The way that I sing is very mumbled-together, and so I guess I'm kind of stuck with it now.
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Everybody that you could name would join in our audiences from, Laguardia on down. Everybody came. Everybody came to the Cotton Club.
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No, I think most astronauts recognize that the space shuttle program is very high-risk, and are prepared for accidents.
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When I started out in life I wanted to teach.
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I never had the chance to consider what or how I wanted to be.
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That whole idea of chick lit being a thing that you just lump all the commercial female writers into - it went on for years.I'd switch on the radio, and I'd hear, 'Two female authors are here to discuss chick lit - is it dead?' and I'd think, 'Argh, no, not again. Are we seriously still having this conversation?'
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It is the Patrol System that makes the Troop, and all Scouting for that matter, a real co-operative matter.
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The richest inheritance any child can have is a stable, loving, disciplined family life.
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It was one of the most exciting, perfect evenings of my life, my solo debut at Carnegie Hall. And knowing we were all there to raise money for Gay Men's Health Crisis made the evening an extraordinary experience.
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No doubt we have to have bigger projects, bigger industries, basic industries, but it is a matter of the highest importance that we look to the common man, the weakest element in the society.
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What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations, and its vast concerns?
