William Cowper Quotes
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I have cravings all the time, even when I'm not pregnant.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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We are dealing with treachery and threats, which accompanied the establishment of Israel.
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People think being famous is so glamorous, but half the time you're in a strange hotel room living out of a suitcase.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I live in a rural part of Virginia surrounded by farms and farmers.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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I have my own past and my own personality. I'm going to relate to the material in a completely different way than somebody else might.
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I'm enslaved to writing to the point where I sacrifice almost everything else.
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The U.S. routinely ranks lower than other countries in health outcomes such as infant mortality.
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Many of the master chefs in the South, both the upper South as well as the deep South, were blacks and many of those people came here to Washington, D.C., and opened up establishments. Very, very few of them have survived. But they certainly were very prominent.
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We, the women of the Senate, with President Obama by our side, will keep fighting - our shoulders square, our lipstick on - because you deserve equal pay for your hard work.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Where there is no temple there shall be no homes.
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I really had little interest in becoming famous. When I write my book, it will be my guide to avoid becoming a rock star.
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Fandom is amazing.
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
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We deemed the secret lost, the spirit gone, Which spake in Greek simplicity of thought, And in the forms of gods and heroes wrought Eternal beauty from the sculptured stone - A higher charm than modern culture won, With all the wealth of metaphysic lore, Gifted to analyze, dissect explore.
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Would we be so enamored with dystopian fiction if we lived in a culture where violent death was a major concern? It wouldn't be escapism.
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I used to think that a man was sentenced to death or imprisonment because he was guilty; now I know that he is found guilty because he is disliked.
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I had four combat tours, and I never saw death on a scale like I saw in Haiti. A quarter-million people lost their lives.
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The desire to be loved is really death when it comes to art.
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We turn to dust, and all our mightiest works die too.
