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.
Samuel J. Palmisano -
I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
Vikram Seth -
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.
Abby Wambach -
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.
Harrison Ford -
I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
Carlene Carter -
Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.
Ed Weeks
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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.
Nadia Comaneci -
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.
Beck -
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.
Gaston Caperton -
I adored my father.
Nancy Wake -
Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.
Abby Wambach -
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.
Ted Danson
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A New York divorce is in itself a diploma of virtue.
Edith Wharton -
For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
Fabrice Muamba -
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.
Barbara Amiel -
Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
Laura Dern -
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.
Rain -
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.
Jackson Pollock
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence
Anthony Daniels -
As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
Taiye Selasi -
There are very few passions in my life - The man upstairs, family, and football.
Jon Gruden -
We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, I'm not a fool today. I've learned my lesson. I was a fool yesterday but not this morning. Then tomorrow we find out that, yes, we were a fool today too. I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly.
Ray Bradbury -
In 2008, when Russia attacked Georgia, Western countries took it as an isolated incident, but probably this was the start of the push against our underlying international security architecture. And this push then started a landslide which in 2014 resulted in Crimean occupation.
Kersti Kaljulaid -
Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.
William Cowper