William Cowper Quotes
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By the time I got to Northwestern University in 1930, I was a football bum more interested in being an All-Star player and signing on with a pro team than going after a newspaper job.
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I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
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I was fortunate enough to visit a lot of beautiful places around the world. The most astonishing and memorable experiences were my trips to Africa and Australia.
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It's a tough transition really for theater actors to adjust to television or film, and all of these years later, I still have a tendency to play it too big.
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All women's issues are to some degree men's issues and all men's issues are to some degree women's issues because when either sex wins unilaterally both sexes lose.
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What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
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Computers are wasteful of paper and time. Once, we'd get documents with a few errors. Now, people make hundreds of copies until each sheet is flawless and memos are duplicated endlessly. Managers get swamped with emails.
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The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
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I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
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Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
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I can do more than just stand-up comedy, and the only way I'll be able to show that is if I do it myself. Because nobody trusts that I can do it.
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I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
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I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.
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First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
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It deals only with international calls. It is generally for far shorter periods of time. And it is not designed to collect reams of intelligence, but to detect and warn and prevent about attacks.
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The older you get, the more you realize it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.
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Standing on soil feels so much different than standing on city pavement; it lets you look inward and reflect and see who you really are, while you see a beautiful, unspoiled land as far as the eye can see. It allows your inner life to grow
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It's always gonna be different when I make a record just because I kind of touch on every sort of genre.
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Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
