William Cowper Quotes
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
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Growing up with my dad, whenever I wanted to try something, he would let me try it but he wouldn't let me give up on it. If soccer was too tough and I said, 'I'm going to quit,' he'd be like, 'No, you're going to try everything and keep going at it.'
Carlos Pena, Jr.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
Famke Janssen
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
Jack Germond
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I guess I'm not really fond of just chit-chatting. I want to learn something and have an experience.
Rachel Kushner
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A man has a birthright to be tired and retired. I am retired completely.
Rajneesh
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
Utah Phillips
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
Laura Donnelly
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Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?
H. L. Mencken
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I joke that we're not dissimilar to a rock band in the '70s.
Isaac Hanson
Hanson
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It's terrible to realize you don't learn how to live until you're ready to die, and then it's too late.
Edna Ferber
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I go to assume a task more difficult than that which devolved upon Washington. Unless the great God, who assisted him, shall be with me and aid me, I must fail; but if the same omniscient mind and almighty arm that directed and protected him shall guide and support me, I shall not fail - I shall succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
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Slowly but surely, we have much better female roles to play and to choose from.
Madchen Amick
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I don't read about myself, and I don't read any magazine that has anything to do with movies or show business.
Christopher Guest
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Having viewed slum clearance projects in most major cities of the world may I state that you have conceived and created in the Johannesburg townships what is probably the most impressive and adequate resettlement activity in existence.
L. Ron Hubbard
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You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.
Ice Cube
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When I was younger, I had conversations with friends about wanting to create something different. Every young musician probably thinks that. But it's difficult to do, because there are only so many words, notes, melodies, songs. But as soon as I stopped thinking and started feeling, it worked. I didn't realize it till I was done.
FKA twigs
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Avon is a unique place to work; we've got family-friendly policies. We have more senior women in high-level management than any other company; 46 percent of our officers are women.
Andrea Jung
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
