William Cowper Quotes
And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
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Teaching is a very noble profession that shapes the character, caliber, and future of an individual. If the people remember me as a good teacher, that will be the biggest honour for me.
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For me, cerebral palsy wasn't the biggest deal, because I always had it. You know, you always work with what you got.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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I think you can soften people's hearts, even if they have a lot of hate. Music can do that if it's beautiful and honest. If I can do that - soften just one person's heart - I consider myself successful already.
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Movies are a big part of our Indian culture.
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I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if it's about God.
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I don't like controversy.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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I don't have any particular goals in making a recording. In a way the recording is itself the goal. The music comes into my mind, and from there the main job is to give form to it.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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In the early part of the '60s I was influenced by the Ventures.
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Thou shalt not give birth reluctantly.
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If you try to break into my house, you will be severely lacerated and possibly electrocuted, and I'm fine with that. Because if you're breaking into my house, you're on your own.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I always felt that anorexia was the form of breakdown most readily available to adolescent girls.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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My sister taught me addition and subtraction and multiplication and division, so by the time I got to school, I knew it all, and when we'd do the times tables, I was just focused on doing it faster than anybody else. I already had the information, so it just got me to focus on excellence.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
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The only thing you can really say in a poem is what you really, really deeply believe.
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The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.
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I didn't come here without a visa, like everyone from China and Vietnam and Cuba. I came here by special plane... received by the ambassador, by the president of the United States. I should be the most honored man in your country.
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Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
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And diff'ring judgments serve but to declare that truth lies somewhere, if we knew but where.
