William Cowper Quotes
As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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I was a child of a tech family. My grandfather was a nuclear physicist and was always a gadget guy.
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At 3 years old, I was imitating and doing fun little commercials for the family. Then at 5, I knew, 'OK, this is something I really like.' At 8, I was crying in front of the mirror and my mom was like, 'Oh boy, here we go. We know what she's going to do.'
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I love reading; I really enjoy it. I read books quite fast, which kind of annoys me, but I like it at the same time because I can read a book in a day.
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They're just my weaknesses. Everyone is just constantly talking to me about it. It doesn't help.
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When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
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I'm very humble.
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I'm an actor and it happened to go my way that day.
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I am not that big a method actor.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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If you want me to sing this Christmas song with the feeling and the meaning, you better see if you can locate that check.
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I was never afraid to put this out. That was never the issue -- ever. I wanted it to sound contemporary but still be me. It was just a matter of getting it right.
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You can't hold the record forever, and I know that. I'm not stupid.
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It's impossible to redefine yourself and your life overnight.
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Perhaps we all lose our sense of reality to the precise degree to which we are engrossed in our own work, and perhaps that is why we see in the increasing complexity of our mental constructs a means for greater understanding, even while intuitively we know that we shall never be able to fathom the imponderables that govern our course through life.
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What good fortune for those in power that people do not think.
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The fantasy, power, songfulness, beauty, and humor of the music itself has been not so much overlooked as rendered secondary to the discussion of it by experts. Instead of his reputation’s creating curiosity about his work, his work has been buried by (and beneath) his reputation.
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Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not have possibly met.
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Repentance is a blessing to all of us. We each need to feel the Savior's arms of mercy through the forgiveness of our sins.
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We like the organic market and the organic market for olives at the present time has given us a great opportunity.
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As creeping ivy clings to wood or stone, And hides the ruin that it feeds upon, So sophistry, cleaves close to, and protects Sin's rotten trunk, concealing its defects.
