William Cowper Quotes
O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
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I love conducting. What I'm tired of is music administration. I don't want that. I just want to make music.
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'Grey's Anatomy' is a very culturally diverse show.
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I went to bed last night dreaming of tuna melts. I love food.
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Odd how much it hurts when a friend moves away- and leaves behind only silence.
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The critical principle demanded an examination, for instance, of the contribution of different periods, thus to some extent embarking on historical linguistics.
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It's just someone has labelled us as having a different label to do what you do. I find that labels are the worst thing in the world for artistic expression.
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I've read science fiction my whole life. I never really dreamed that I'd be a published science fiction writer myself, but a short story I started years ago sort of demanded to be turned into a novel.
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Hillary Clinton almost got to be president. The reasons why she didn't become president had to do with bad judgments about how to handle the early caucus states, which is not a gender-specific trait.
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I have been known to hang out and party back in the day. I had a weekend that lasted a few years.
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In 1991, few North Koreans had ever used a telephone. You had to go to a post office to make a phone call.
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I think I've achieved a lot in 41 years. I like how 41 feels; I feel good. I don't like how it sounds too much.
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Music is like my security blanket.
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I'm not afraid of heights. I rock climb. I can repel off the side of a building.
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Never put a sock in a toaster.
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I like to do Pilates.
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I like new challenges and new experiences.
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Over recent years, urbanisation, globalisation and the destruction of local cultures has led to a rise in the prevalence of mental illness in the developing world.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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We shall seek debate without division or rancour.
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I think it's insulting to an audience to make them sit and watch a film and then give them a message in one sentence.
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With Hitler it was all floating, without roots, intangible and mediumistic.
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It seems that for all of the artists signed to a major, there exists the same amount of artists that are struggling to break through to the surface within the label. I think, ideally, we'd end up with a very well connected competent indie team that will be along with us for the ride, however long that ride may be.
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We all run on two clocks. One is the outside clock, which ticks away our decades and brings us ceaselessly to the dry season. The other is the inside clock, where you are your own timekeeper and determine your own chronology, your own internal weather and your own rate of living. Sometimes the inner clock runs itself out long before the outer one, and you see a dead man going through the motions of living.
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O Winter! ruler of the inverted year, . . . I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fireside enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturbed Retirement, and the hours Of long uninterrupted evening, know.
