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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Lots of people think the violence in the films I make is overwhelming, but they think they're seeing something that they aren't seeing.
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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, personally, like good clothes. I appreciate a fine tailored suit, and I'm impressed with the expansion of color in men's wardrobes.
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To ask strength not to express itself as strength, not to be a will to dominate, a will to subjugate, a will to become master, a thirst for enemies and obstacles and triumphant celebrations, is just as absurd as to ask weakness to express itself as strength.
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There is a degree of confidence exhibited towards strangers in Sweden, especially in hotels, at post-stations, and on board the inland steamers, which tells well for the general honesty of the people.
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From Thee, great God: we spring, to Thee we tend,Path, motive, guide, original, and end.
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Five hundred years ago the notoriously savvy Henry VIII discovered an elegant way to solve both his theological problems and his personal liquidity crisis - he dissolved the monasteries and nicked all their land. Since the principle of any rich person who wants to stay rich is, never give anything away unless you absolutely have to, the land has stayed with Crown ever since.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
