William Cowper Quotes
There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
Quotes to Explore
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Virtually every major technology has an initial spike of interest, then a dip, and then a long-term rise to success. The dot-com bubble is the canonical example, but there are many more.
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I loved Alessandra Torre's 'Black Lies.'
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Happy to see that the Automobile Club of Monaco, opened its doors to the public to attend a considerable event. The promotion of this event will be made by the image and by the text, but still by word of mouth.
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There can only be one state of mind as you approach any profound test; total concentration, a spirit of togetherness, and strength.
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I'm a gun owner.
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I don't believe in changing the unchangeable.
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I can't write about people I don't feel some sort of connection to.
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I'd like to do an action film like Angelina Jolie's 'Salt.'
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I think there has never ever been a career like John Williams'. That whole 'Jaws' phenomenon - there's nobody that knows how to use music like Spielberg, and John is just the perfect analog to Spielberg.
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Every decision I make in Congress will be centered on the needs of the district.
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I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.
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I'm kind of shocked that it's taken Hollywood so long to realize that so many great movie talents can come out of television. One of the reasons they do is that on TV you don't have the luxury of a film's big budget, and people have to compensate with creativity.
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When I came to MIT, there were four rubrics: science, art, design, and technology. And as you entered your degree, whether it was a master's or a Ph.D., if you were a citizen in one domain, you were a traveler in the other.
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Let's get one thing straight - there is a big difference between a quitter and someone who gives up. Unfortunately, I have the right to make this claim because I fit into the category of 'quitter.'
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Is it racist to prefer country music over the blues? Or is it simply a classic case of tribal antipathy toward the unfamiliar, in favor of gravitating to what you know?
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The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed.
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I saw a niche in the market where made-to-measure wasn't being done in a modern, fresh way or in a short period of time. Traditionally, bespoke orders take a very long time, but I thought, 'Here we are with all these fashion-forward ideas - why not?'
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What will eventually cause the defeat of ISIL is that it will collapse under its own contradictions, frankly. When the populations in which it tries to maneuver realize that that ideology is not to their future benefit.
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit - audacious and irreverent, yet passionately engaged and committed to social change.
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Love - is when you wish all the best to the people you love, when you put their interests and well-being above their own. Always.
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If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark! And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
