William Cowper Quotes
If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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Foucault is one of many who want a new conception of how power and knowledge interact. But he is not looking for a relation between two givens, 'power' and 'knowledge.' As always, he is trying to rethink the entire subject matter, and his 'knowledge' and 'power' are to be something else.
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I'm just there to do interviews and stuff, because we have about 40 media people there, so it's a very, very busy week. But that's the only time. I did marry, I think on one show, about 25 couples in Acapulco Bay once, but that was all just for kicks.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.
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Everyone thinks their family is the craziest family in the world. Like, 'My God, my family's crazy!'
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go.
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I have to admit I can be pretty high strung and tightly wound.
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When you're in a black group, you have to keep in mind you're not black. You just have to be sensitive. We have to be appreciative that the black nationalist struggle is a nationalist struggle.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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Basically my whole life revolves around soccer. I don't take many vacations. Everything just gets put on the back burner because of my training. I miss out on a lot of weddings and family functions. But at the end of the day, I'm sitting here as a world champion, and it feels pretty good.
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Joe Jackson was a tragic figure. He was a serene country boy who signed a confession he couldn't read. He was illiterate.
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We always learn more from the losing than the winning.
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We want to support Nashville, support the community there and be a part of it.
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence.
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I go to ComicCon every year, but it's in a work capacity. I'm a legitimate fan of comics, and I have been since I was 5.
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Form as a goal always ends in formalism. For this striving is directed not towards an inside, but towards an outside. But only a living inside has a living outside.
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There's never any ability to plan a personal life.
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It's a great time to be doing political satire when the world is on a knife edge.
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If my resolution to be a great man was half so strong as it is to despise the shame of being a little one.
