William Cowper Quotes
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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Some people say I chastise the Republican Party too much.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.
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The great thing about writing is that it has to work without that invisible layer of the reader's added knowledge.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for their abundance.
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In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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I've done some really off-the-wall stuff and stuff that people might not expect. That's one way to work through people's expectations of you.
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I'd done some acting stuff when I was younger, around age nine.
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How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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I don't start with a list of historical scenes that I want to include in the book. At a certain point, the narrative totally takes over, and everything that I include I can only incorporate if it answers to the internal terms of the novel.
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Politicians read the polls that show 85 or 90 percent of the voters profess a belief in God, so they identify themselves with religion, often only to the degree necessary to reach the constituency they are targeting.
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Politics was my third act. But I could have a fourth. I don't know what that will be yet, but there will be one.
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
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Modes are infinite, and laws are infinite.
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But I think it's more that when you're young, you're invincible, you're immortal - or at least you think you are. The possibilities are limitless, you're inventing the future. Then you get older and suddenly you have a history. It's fixed. You can't change anything. I find that a bit disturbing, to be honest.
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Long ago, I made up my mind that when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit. (14 January 1942)
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I think, no matter what, when you're writing songs, most people write about the extremes of their experiences.
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I think one of the reasons I've been successful is that I can see things before other people do. I've always been able to do it.
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Pretty much every society, every culture in the world has some version of the Arthur legend, so everybody knows it; certainly in the western world, everybody knows King Arthur, but nobody knows what happens next.
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He that runs may read.
