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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But the development of human society does not go straight forward; and the epic process will therefore be a recurring process, the series a recurring series - though not in exact repetition.
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People believed what I said was what I believed.
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Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best; for that we must have recourse to art.
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We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.
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I owe everything to the musicians I work with.
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When all within is peace How nature seems to smile Delights that never cease The live-long day beguile
