Will Cotton Quotes
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I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'
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I have to be more universal than my projects, but no less innovative.
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I was an artist, but not a self-proclaimed great artist, just a common man who was working in a form of art which is universal.
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These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same time, realistic enough to balance this kind of imagination and the process leading to it - not using violence, not trying to create chaos.
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Once you turn something into something, its universal usage is over.
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There is a universal reality in ourselves that aligns us with a universal reality that is everywhere.
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Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
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For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible.
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By beauty of course I mean truth, for the one involves the other; it is only the false in art which is ugly, and it is only the ugly that is universal.
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Death is the universal salt of states; Blood is the base of all things--law and war.
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Evil is limited. One cannot form A scheme for universal evil.
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I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.
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Can one say that there is a way of crying out, of speaking, which is properly feminine? Personally, I don't think so. In the end, I find this is another way of putting women in a kind of singularity, a ghetto, which is not what I want. I want them to be singular and universal at the same time.
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The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.
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It is because the human experience is universal that human rights are universal.
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I try to keep in shape and I always have to check myself. Whenever I binge eat, sweets are the one temptation.
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Music is a universal language. You don't have to worry about what is being conveyed. You don't have to try to figure out what could be lost in translation. It goes directly to the pit of your soul. I think that's what music was intended to do.
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When it comes to the issue of background checks, let's be honest - background checks will never be 'universal' - because criminals will never submit to them.
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Then Saturday Night Live spawns... well, everything right down to American Pie 9, where all humor has to be irrelevant, which can get a little tiring.
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Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined.
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When I was single my career was my life, so everything I did was of grave importance and was greatly disturbing.
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Fermat said he had a proof.
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Grandfathers do have a special place in the lives of their children's children. They can delight and play with them and even indulge them in ways that they did not indulge their own children. Grandfather knows that after the fun and games are over with his adorable grandchildren he can return to the quiet of his own home and peacefully reflect on this phenomenon of fatherhood.
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People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
