William Cowper Quotes
The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
Quotes to Explore
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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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Every record is a gate of a certain kind for me.
Kurt Elling
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Doing new stuff live is tough just simply because I pay my money, I stand in my seats, and I see the guys I love. And if I paid that ticket, there's a good chance that I'm there to hear the stuff that made me fall in love with 'em - we call it the 'old stuff.'
Garth Brooks
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My mum was a librarian, and she brought home a lot of interesting books, and we just read and read. I suppose I didn't really think I could be a writer myself until I was working in editing in my 20s and discovered that actually, the books that came in were not very much like published books.
Margo Lanagan
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Doom 2 is just such a bigger, badder, better version of Doom
John Romero
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The poet, as everyone knows, must strike his individual note sometime between the ages of fifteen and twenty-five. He may hold it a long time, or a short time, but it is then that he must strike it or never. School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
Robert Frost
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The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
