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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Every change in a team can turn into an opportunity for players to show themselves.
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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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No, and I never, ever eat in between the meals. I control it well enough and with no pills, and I sleep seven hours a night. I go to bed. I fall asleep, and I wake up seven hours later, and this is the most important.
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Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear.
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Its berries are red as a maiden's lip,Its leaves are of changeless green ;And any thing changeless now, I wis,Is somewhat rare to be seen.The holly, which fall and frost has borne,The holly's the wreath for a Christmas morn.
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Myths, as compared with folk tales, are usually in a special category of seriousness: they are believed to have "really happened,"or to have some exceptional significance in explaining certain features of life, such as ritual. Again, whereas folk tales simply interchange motifs and develop variants, myths show an odd tendency to stick together and build up bigger structures. We have creation myths, fall and flood myths, metamorphose and dying-god myths.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
