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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I experienced a lot of spiritual growth when I started traveling to Europe and playing basketball. I saw that just because I was away from home didn't mean Jesus wasn't with me. He is everywhere and you can see signs of Him in the most remote places in the world through people who don't even speak your language. Jesus is universal.
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If there are words and wrongs like knives, whose deep inflicted lacerations never heal - cutting injuries and insults of serrated and poison-dripping edge - so, too, there are consolations of tone too fine for the ear not fondly and for ever to retain their echo: caressing kindnesses - loved, lingered over through a whole life, recalled with unfaded tenderness, and answering the call with undimmed shine, out of that raven cloud foreshadowing Death himself.
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We mustn't waste time; for that's the stuff life's made of.
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I used to get out of bed sometimes and feel depressed and watched a lot of reruns on TV to get over it. I should have allowed myself to be a little more human and not worry about trying to be a superwoman.
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Sooner or later we all must die. Warriors choose to do so on their feet, standing between their enemies and those they hold dear. With a weapon in their hands. Cowards choose to do so on their bellies. Unarmed.
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People's love of sweets and guilty feelings about overindulgence are pretty universal.
