William Blake Quotes
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I know theater can improve the quality of people's lives, and I know theater can heal. I've worked as a doctor clown in a hospital for two years. I have seen sick kids and sad parents and doctors be lifted and transported in moments of pure joy. I know theater unites us.
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New York's my home. Born and raised. I'm a New Yorker to the bone.
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When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness.
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We never thought 'Say Something' would be a holiday song. I'm still surprised that it's resonating at this time of year. Maybe that's why it's working so well - it balances out all the joy.
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When I was born, my father was a copper miner in Butte, Montana. It was a hard-core, blue-collar situation.
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Mozart was born Mozart. Charlie Parker was born Charlie Parker.
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Born in a cellar... and living in a garret.
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If your response to the first black president is to say they weren't born in this country... you might be a white supremacist.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.
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When I don't plumb the depths or the opportunities of each day, I don't have joy.
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Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.
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Coach Lue always amazed me. I'm like, 'How do you have this much joy coming out of life? You have money, but you don't drink; you don't smoke. All you do is hoop, and you live on a natural high.' But now I know.
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Some people are born strong or stretchy, or with a tungsten will.
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I feel like trouble has followed me from the day I was born.
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A woman experiencing an unplanned pregnancy also deserves to experience unplanned joy.
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I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
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I'm one of those old-fashioned homosexuals, not one of the newfangled ones who are born joining parades.
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As every bird-watcher knows, the beauty of a bird's song is inversely correlated with the colourfulness of its plumage.
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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.
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As in geometry, the oblique must be known, as well as the right; and in arithmetic, the odd as well as the even; so in actions of life, who seeth not the filthiness of evil, wanteth a great foil to perceive the beauty of virtue.
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You can always find time to do the thing you really, really want to do.
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How can a bird that is born for joy Sit in a cage and sing?
