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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The mob spirit has grown with the increasing intelligence of the Afro-American.
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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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There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
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Had there not been a Mary Todd, there would not have been an Abraham Lincoln. She found him when he was a young lawyer and really a bumpkin. No one knew of him, but she recognized his brilliance.
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A different script calls for different things. It always takes me a long time to get to know the part, and know the logic behind the words. I have to be with the script for quite a long time before things start to fall into place, before they become part of the character.
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Wickedness never did, never does, never will bring us happiness.
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Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against vanity want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it.
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Domestic happiness, thou only bliss Of paradise that has surviv'd the fall!
