William Cowper Quotes
And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
William Cowper
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I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
Sam Smith
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I say: The time has come for my courageous and proud people, after decades of displacement and colonial occupation and ceaseless suffering, to live like other peoples of the earth, free in a sovereign and independent homeland.
Mahmoud Abbas
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It's good to be busy on a film set because there is a lot of sitting around, so if you've got two roles to play at one time, then that's great to do.
Damian Lewis
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Scotland is the best place in the whole world.
Gail Porter
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I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
Aaron Ruell
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You fight, you try your best, but if you lose, you don't have to break five racquets and smash up the locker room. You can do those things, but when you've finished, nothing's changed. You've still lost. If something positive came from that, I probably would do it. But I see only negativity.
Rafael Nadal
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As I toiled up the Mount of Olives, in the very footsteps of Christ, panting with the heat and the difficult ascent, I found it utterly impossible to conceive that the Deity, in human form, had walked there before me.
Bayard Taylor
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The strength of our economy allows us to maintain the mightiest military in the world, effectively enforcing a Pax Americana.
Ted Cruz
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Who'd ever have thought that I'd be the face or the body of any kind of exercise at all.
Kathy Najimy
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That obviously includes France, Germany, and Italy, who are offering forces as part of this coalition and all the other member states as well.
Jack Straw
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...you have to cherish the world at the same time that you struggle to endure it.
Flannery O'Connor
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I paint the way I do because I can keep on putting more and more things in - like drama, pain, anger, love, a figure, a horse, my ideas of space. It doesn't matter if it differs from mine, as long as it comes from the painting, which has its own integrity and intensity.
Willem de Kooning
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For myself, I declare I don't know anything about it. But the sight of the stars always makes me dream.
Vincent Van Gogh
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That's where my influences lie, in the blues with people like Muddy Waters and Tina Turner. At first I didn't really like the idea of working with synthesizers but now I think they're fun, there are no restrictions. Not that I understand how they work.
Vince Clarke
Erasure
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Not to know one's true identity is to be a mad, disensouled thing — a golem. And, indeed, this image, sick-eningly Orwellian, applies to the mass of human beings now living in the high-tech industrial democracies. Their authenticity lies in their ability to obey and follow mass style changes that are conveyed through the media. Immersed in junk food, trash media, and cryp-tofascist politics, they are condemned to toxic lives of low awareness. Sedated by the prescripted daily television fix, they are a living dead, lost to all but the act of consuming.
Terence McKenna
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And, of all lies (be that one poet's boast) / The lie that flatters I abhor the most.
William Cowper