William Cowper Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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I love to cook. I could never give that up.
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That's the way I work and one day I won't have the energy to do it, so I think it's always good to make the most of your life and living as much as possible.
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I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.
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I loved her. I still love her, though I curse her in my sleep, so nearly one are love and hate, the two most powerful and devasting emotions that control man, nations, life.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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Forgiveness is a very personal and intimate thing. Forgiveness is not something that you can speak for others because it includes not only your desire and will, your reflection and intellect, but also your emotions.
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I don't believe in an outside agent that creates the world, then walks away. But I feel very strongly there is an intelligence at work in every flower, in every blade of grass, in every cell of my body. And it is that intelligence that, I wouldn't say created the universe. It is creating the universe. It's an ongoing process.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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There's a lot of buying power from the Middle East. Girls from Dubai want to be able to wear Asos, and you have people travelling all the way to the States just to go shopping.
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In an art school it's very hard to tell who is the best.
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I'm an old trial lawyer.
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Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.
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I'm holding onto the hope that there is some reason that I got cancer and there is something – that may not be very clear to me right now – but that I will do.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
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Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
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I feel that World Cup cricket should be played like football in which all the 160 countries take part. If only a handful of countries are going to keep on playing in the World Cup without making the game popular, I will be a sad man.
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No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another.
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England is my home. I could never leave. I'd miss my family and friends too much.
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
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I think like a genius, I write like a distinguished author, and I speak like a child.
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Sin let loose speaks punishment at hand.
