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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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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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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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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The Doctrine of the Trinity teaches that within the unity of the one Godhead there are three separate persons who are coequal in power, nature, and eternity.
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Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the scores to have vocal notes, because they act as a limitation to these flights of fancy.
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But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores.
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I’m afraid I’ll be a book that no one reads. Music that no one listens to anymore. I’m afraid I’ll be abandoned like a movie playing in an empty theater.
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What scoundrels we would be if we did for ourselves what we are ready to do for Italy.
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The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class.
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Being an actor is a crazy way to spend one's life. It's the love of the game. Blind luck has a lot to do with it. Then you hope when you get your shot that you know what you're doing.
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Female movie stars from the pre-Code era of Hollywood, like Mae West, could be so raunchy and witty before they were edited. Sometimes they could go further in their wit than we go now.
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The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.
