William Cowper Quotes
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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I love Dolce & Gabbana. I love Versace. I love the crazy, more eccentric stuff.
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If some people have the belief or view that the Dalai Lama has some miracle power, that's totally nonsense.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I just didn't know where I fit in - I didn't seem to fit in my parent's generation. I didn't seem to fit in my own generation. Little by little, this took me into a spiritual search for understanding; a search for meaning and fulfillment.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door - or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present.
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At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.
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The bad news motivated the drill instructors that much more.
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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I'm a voice for children's books and children's reading.
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There are three orchestras in Munich, all world-quality, in a city of one million. Yet every hall is full.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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I feel I owe you another explanation Harry," said Dumbledore hesitantly. "You may, perhaps, wondered why I never chose you as a prefect? I must confess...that I rather thought...you had enough responsibility to be going on with." Harry looked up at him and saw a tear trickling down Dumbledore's face into his long silver beard.
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Man is a long time coming. Man will yet win. Brother may yet line up with brother: This old anvil laughs at many broken hammers. There are men who can't be bought.
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Receptor chemistry, the chemistry of artificial receptor molecules, may be considered a generalized coordination chemistry, not limited to transition metal ions but extending to all types of substrates: cationic, anionic or neutral species of organic, inorganic or biological nature.
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Rising sea levels, severe draughts, the melting of the polar caps, the more frequent and devastating natural disasters all raise demand for humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
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I admit to occasionally sharing the financial hysteria of the rest of the country, the urgency to save more for the family in case you can't write any more.
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That good diffused may more abundant grow.