William Cowper Quotes
A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
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Just be patient. Let the game come to you. Don't rush. Be quick, but don't hurry.
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I felt unhappy and trapped. If I left baseball, where could I go, what could I do to earn enough money to help my mother and to marry Rachel? The solution to my problem was only days away in the hands of a tough, shrewd, courageous man called Branch Rickey, the president of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
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My main concern with the condition of mathematics in high school is that there's a lot of fear involved! Math is not, generally speaking, presented in a fun way. The concepts, as I see them, are fun, and that's the way I'd like to convey them myself.
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People don't just want a mindless flick with a superstar; they want to connect more deeply.
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Life is one long process of getting tired.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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I rarely went to the mosque, I never fasted, and I only prayed namaaz on the holy nights because my mom bugged me about it.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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We got orders to strike the Marshall and Gilbert Islands. We had a task force with the Enterprise. We had two or three cruisers and probably eight or 10 destroyers.
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I have been fortunate to experience a wide range of characters. What more can an actor ask for?
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Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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I had to quit ballet because it felt like a part of me was dying inside.
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The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.
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There are a lot of shows that have secrets and string people along and use the secrets of the narrative engine to keep people coming back every week. I don't know if those programs even have an answer. I don't know how they build their shows.
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Online, you have things like Slate Magazine, which has a lot of commentary and analysis of stories, so it gives you a fuller picture. I would compare that to a news magazine or the New Republic.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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There is something not entirely satisfying about an online memorial.
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Never tell a lie. Anyone who can tell you the slightest of lies is also capable of any evil.
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So dazzling was the spread of constellations that it had the impact of a vision, of some hidden insight. I drove home saying to myself: The dead, too, are like this, blazing within us - invisibly.
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One of the things that is assumed about actors is that they are extrovert, which is almost never the case, in my experience.
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That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.
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A glory gilds the sacred page, Majestic like the sun, It gives a light to every age, It gives, but borrows none.
