William Cowper Quotes
The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
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Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.
O. J. Simpson
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I actually like getting out of my comfort zone. It shakes me up.
Gail Sheehy
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I was raised in an observant Jewish household, so for me, Hebrew prayers - the sounds, the sunlight streaming in from the stained-glass windows of a synagogue - bring my father back to me as surely as if he were sitting next to me, my head pressed against his shoulder.
Dani Shapiro
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When service members are discharged, we should express our gratitude for their profound personal sacrifice, not hand them a bill for their hospital food.
Barbara Boxer
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We were pressured to accept kids we were not qualified to handle. And we do that to people all the time, which is why we don't have enough foster parents.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
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I've long thought that for my last meal on earth I will be perfectly happy with a granary loaf toastie with melted crunchy peanut butter and banana.
Tamsin Greig
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
Viggo Mortensen
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Twenty-six million Russians died in the defense of their homeland against the Nazis.
Fidel Castro
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The Israeli public is frustrated with the way it is portrayed abroad.
Naftali Bennett
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Modeling is a job. Even my mum doesn't believe that I do work hard.
Kate Moss
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker China Crisis
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I mark the reading of 'Look Homeward, Angel' as one of the pivotal events of my life. It starts off with the single greatest, knock-your-socks-off first page I have ever come across in my careful reading of world literature.
Pat Conroy
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I was successful with mediocre material because of a good recording voice that people really liked at that time.
Nancy Sinatra
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I'm going to be shaking my booty when I'm 55.
Natalie Merchant
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I'm really not a party person. I'm in the business of working with 100 people every day, so I don't revel in meeting a roomful of people in my leisure time.
Zubin Mehta
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High gas prices are eating away at consumer's disposal income and could lead to a further economic downturn, especially for those whose livelihood depend on gasoline and diesel fuel.
Major Owens
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I don't like anything permanent; I have to be able to flee. You have to be able to flee at a moment's notice.
Maira Kalman
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I viewed my fellow man not as a fallen angel, but as a risen ape.
Desmond Morris
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It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother’s keeper, I am my sister’s keeper that makes this country work. It’s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one.
Barack Obama
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There is a majesty and mystery in nature, take her as you will. The essence of poetry comes breathing to a mind that feels from every province of her empire.
Thomas Carlyle
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No matter how accomplished or how many awards you get, you're always still thinking there's somebody out there who's better than you.
Paul McCartney The Beatles
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Yes. I guess it's the foolish romantic in me, but you see, I don’t think that sex is my Muse.
Peter Murphy Bauhaus
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The rich are too indolent, the poor too weak, to bear the insupportable fatigue of thinking.
William Cowper