William Cowper Quotes
Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
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I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing fiction.
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My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I don't do fake. That's the first thing you should know about me. I'm not one to put on airs or change my demeanor depending on where I am or who I am talking to.
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I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-hour, day-to-day type stuff they do to move the ball forward.
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May we be saved from evil thoughts and deed of enemies of world peace who find pleasure in creating havoc and perpetrating all forms of carnage.
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Everybody likes money. I like money. I need money to survive. But I don't love money. Money is not my god.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.
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Before you lay a foundation on the cricket field, there should be a solid foundation in your heart and you start building on that. After that as you start playing more and more matches, you learn how to score runs and how to take wickets.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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Someone's career that I admire would have to be Justin Timberlake's because he started off on Disney and he made this huge film career and huge solo music career. I really respect him as an artist.
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Someone once said that you can make the choice between getting old and getting creepy, and I think getting old is the way to go.
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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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Most people who get in trouble in politics usually get in trouble because they're disconnected from the people they serve, and I don't think anybody in Tennessee, even people who won't vote for me, would accuse me of that.
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Is it not in the most absolute simplicity that real genius plies its pinions the most wonderfully?
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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More money has been lost trying to imitate 'Rocky' than 'Rocky' has made.
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But you see, that's the gilded prison of fashion. We're riding in private jets, and meantime I was so incredibly, painfully sad and lonely.
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Nothing I do is by design. It's always the result of a happy accident. I didn't have a career plan. It has just become the way it is. It's all good fun.
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Without vision you don't see, and without practicality the bills don't get paid.
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An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.
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Kill the snake of doubt in your soul, crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
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Then liberty, like day, Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven Fires all the faculties with glorious joy.
