William Cowper Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.
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If they wish to alleviate the sufferings of the exploited classes, let them live up to their pretensions, let them abandon the academy and go out there and work politically and economically and in a humanitarian spirit.
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A movie is about human beings, about humanity.
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I am forever grateful for 'Cheers.'
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After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.
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I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
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People on television have trouble with fame because audiences think they're their mates.
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Anti-Semitism has not disappeared, and European Jews have too often come under attack.
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I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
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The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
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I don't care how popular I am. I'm not putting myself out there to run for higher office.
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Everyone tries to talk you out of going to college. The consensus being that people are just gonna forget about you, you know, and that's the way the business works.
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I generally travel with my laptop, a couple of great books, and my iPod.
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I can run up a wall and do a back flip - that's the most impressive thing that I can do.
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The Chinese economy's still not that much of a consumer economy.
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There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.
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I enjoy the process of composing music. The first time I hear a song, it has to bring a smile to my lips. You have to tap your feet and be able to sing the song.
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What is universal can be surprising. Over time you find the kind of stuff which has people thinking 'That is just something that occurred to me... there's something wrong with me', is in fact stuff that is universal.
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There have been joys too great to be described in words, and there have been griefs upon which I have not dared to dwell, and with these in mind I say, climb if you will, but remember that courage and strength are naught without prudence, and that a momentary negligence may destroy the happiness of a lifetime. Do nothing in haste, look well to each step, and from the beginning think what may be the end.
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Ishta-devata and Guru are aids - very powerful aids on this path. But an aid to be effective requires your effort also. Your effort is a sine qua non. It is you who should see the sun. Can spectacles and the sun see for you? You yourself have to see your true nature. Not much aid is required for doing it!
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For the sadness in legitimate humour consists in the fact that honestly and without deceit it reflects in a purely human way upon what it is to be a child.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
