William Cowper Quotes
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Marriage is like paying an endless visit in your worst clothes.
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I will never sign to a major record label again. If, by some mega fluke, a record of mine looked like it might break big, I'd try and do it via an indie or somehow license it. I'm not having my music owned by those corporate bastards again.
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In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.
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Don't be surprised if you find me doing some charity work in another country.
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Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship.
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The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady. It sounds like a saddle horse.
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OKCupid's model is almost entirely based on advertising, which is the way most online media is monetized these days, whether it's the news or whether it's sports, and we think online dating is going to evolve in the exact same way.
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It was lucky for me. It wasn't lucky for the nine people that got killed and the 20 that were injured.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I loved what I did. I could've been secretary of state for ever.
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I did model for a little while part-time, but I wasn't a bloody model, and I am definitely not that horrible thing 'model-turned-actress.'
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There are no large-scale original musicals being made right now. They're all Broadway adaptations and jukebox musicals or catalog musicals, and they just don't interest me as much.
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I feel bad that I'm the one always blamed for the failure of the space business - even though there are problems with government policy toward the space business.
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You don't know where life takes you.
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Things are fluid in this world, and if you don't remain fluid, you get lost in the sauce.
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All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.
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When you get too big a majority, you're immediately in trouble.'
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I love the sea, but I avoid any sort of seaside resort that has skyscrapers or seaside entertainments.
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Rage is the only quality which has kept me, or anybody I have ever studied, writing columns for newspapers.
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Requiring a lot of time does not make a task important.
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Men expect that religion should cost them no pains, that happiness should drop into their laps without any design and endeavor on their part, and that, after they have done what they please while they live, God should snatch them up to heaven when they die. But though the commandments of God be not grievous, yet it is fit to let men know that they are not thus easy.
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What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?" Grandeur has but little," said Elinor, "but wealth has much to do with it." Elinor, for shame!" Said Marianne. "Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it.
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In addition, the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act provides protection for those in the firearms industry from lawsuits arising out of the criminal or unlawful acts of people who misuse their products.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
