William Cowper Quotes
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.

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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.
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The president has been more than willing to challenge the National Rifle Association, but that is like a Republican president standing up to labor unions - not a move that risks anything with his core supporters. Mr. Obama could show some real bravery by taking on Hollywood.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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The script for what would eventually become my first graphic novel, 'Cairo,' sort of came to me in kind of a bolt of lightning within 24 hours of having moved to that city. Just a jumble of characters and narratives and interesting things that I was seeing and experiencing for the first time.
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When it comes to working out, I really don't like the gym. I go because I have to, but I'm usually not happy about it. I do what my trainer and coaches tell me to do, but I'm always anxious to get outside.
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I don't normally take to Yorkshiremen.
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I see many black males grasping for some thread of hope. There are so many destructive practices, glimpses into a psychic abyss. That must be very frightening.
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If we turn our back on the people of this country who need to work for a living, we shouldn't be here, to be honest, because that has to be an essential part of what we do to protect the country, from the standpoint of defense, protect workers and make sure they have jobs.
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I decided to build a studio in my house. We built it in my basement kitchen. I had the drummer up by the fish tank. I was in the toilet singing. The bass player was out by the shelves in the living room, and the guitarist was on the couch by the telly.
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Hypocrisy is a detriment to progress. There's always a hidden agenda.
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Habit is a great deadener.
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If the structures of the human mind remain unchanged, we will always end up re-creating the same world, the same evils, the same dysfunction.
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I lost my confidence.
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I never try to be the poster child for the perfect mother/wife... You prioritize, you do the best you can possibly do, and you don't beat yourself up.
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Visionaries not only believe that the impossible can be done, but that it must be done.
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I mean, I haven't been completely lacking in some enjoyment of Chuck Berry or Buddy Holly. But I just didn't pay attention to that period of music, obviously.
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Working as a teaboy may have helped my confidence, but not everyone else was so pleased. I could never remember who had milk or how many sugars, and I had an unusual talent for spilling tea on the recording console.
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The Internet: transforming society and shaping the future through chat.
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Human nature makes it easy to bicker like children, but the human heart makes it possible to squelch the noise our head creates.
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But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.