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.
Irv Kupcinet -
I am the last guy that wants to quit making music.
Garth Brooks -
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.
Karolina Kurkova -
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.
Jack Black -
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.
Warren Farrell -
What inspires me most to write is the act of traveling.
Tea Obreht
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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.
Felix Dennis -
The technological revolution at home makes it much easier for computers to do our work.
Fareed Zakaria -
Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
Edmond de Goncourt -
'Jihad' can mean holy war to extremists, but it means struggle to the average Muslim.
Feisal Abdul Rauf -
I come from a massive family, and the youngest is twentysomething years younger than I am, so I grew up with children.
Vera Farmiga -
Under Obamacare, it virtually is impossible to find out the price of anything. That's not the way to make health care affordable.
Rand Paul
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By the time I returned to Czechoslovakia, I had an understanding of the principles of the market.
Vaclav Klaus -
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.
Dane Cook -
I've been as critically rubbished as acclaimed and the worst thing about that is that it usually plays into your own self-criticism.
Rachel Ward -
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.
T. S. Eliot -
First, accept sadness. Realize that without losing, winning isn't so great.
Alyssa Milano -
Beloved, I sought you here and there, asked for news of you from all I met; then saw you through myself and found we were identical. Now I blush to think I ever searched for signs of you.
Fakhr-al-Din Iraqi
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If you spend any time on the shooting of a drama, for television or movies, it's very slow and there's a lot of standing around.
Rebecca Eaton -
The frequency of disastrous consequences in compound fracture, contrasted with the complete immunity from danger to life or limb in simple fracture, is one of the most striking as well as melancholy facts in surgical practice.
Joseph Lister -
The worst thing that ever happened to writing is that it became a business, The purpose of business is to make money, and to achieve that end it is necessary to please as many people as possible, to amuse them, to entertain them - in short, to do everything that will help increase the volume of sales.
Dagobert D. Runes -
The more closely [the German army] converged on [Stalingrad], the narrower became their scope for tactical manoeuvre as a lever in loosening resistance. By contrast, the narrowing of the frontage made it easier for the defender to switch his local reserves to any threatened point on the defensive arc.
B. H. Liddell Hart -
Admirals extolled for standing still, or doing nothing with a deal of skill.
William Cowper