William Cowper Quotes
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.
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I adored my father.
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Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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Of course the barbarians' aim of world domination has not escaped the attention of the Europeans, perhaps because unlike us they are closer to the walls.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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We knew it would rain, for the poplars showed The white of their leaves, the amber grainShrunk in the wind,-and the lightning now Is tangled in tremulous skeins of rain.
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As to what I would like to be. It is difficult to say. An Artist of some kind. If nothing else I shall always study the Arts. People have always frightened and bored me, consequently I have been within my own shell and have not accomplished anything materially.
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I tolerate my faults but not at all other people's.
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Few of us have the necessary unselfishness to hear with gladness the talents of others extolled or to listen with patience to the successes of those whom we despise—Vivian
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A low standard of prayer means a low standard of character and a low standard of service. Those alone labor effectively among men who impetuously fling themselves upward towards God.
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We must not dwell on what we were in our salad days when soup days steam now upon the table!
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Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
