William Cowper Quotes
When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
Quotes to Explore
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I made up 'Badlands'; anything I say, goes. I came to realize I was materializing a metaphor for my mental state.
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It's very hard to maintain focus in the gym.
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Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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There's a lot of animals in the open ocean - most of them that make light. And we have a pretty good idea, for most of them, why. They use it for finding food, for attracting mates, for defending against predators. But when you get down to the bottom of the ocean, that's where things get really strange.
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Having my own family has made me realise there's more to life than chasing the next job.
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Putting a tax on carbon could be an effective approach for curbing global warming pollution.
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Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.
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I started cooking out of middle school depression.
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Disneyland is a work of love. We didn't go into Disneyland just with the idea of making money.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.
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I have disassociated myself from that book.
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Never let an inventor run a company. You can never get him to stop tinkering and bring something to market.
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I found a red Oscar de la Renta raincoat, and it's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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I may be wrong, but the essential illustrative nature of most documentary photography, and the worship of the object per se, in our best nature photography, is not enough to satisfy the man of today, compounded as he is of Christ, Freud, and Marx.
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When I come out of my dressing room, I go to my heart and say a little prayer and go out on stage. There I am, coming to lift you up and to motivate you. I want to bring joy. It's gospel, and gospel is the truth. It's what I do. I'm going to bring you the truth and lift up your spirit.
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Everything that Traffic ever did, I'd give Steve a complete lyric, titled, written out with the verse, the bridge, the shape and rhyme and then Steve had to figure out how the meter of the words would fit musically.
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I'm not afraid of failing. I don't like to fail. I hate to fail. But I'm not afraid of it.
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Anybody can die, everything is fleeting, and you've just got to make sure that you catch up on what you can catch up on.
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
