William Blake Quotes
Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
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You have to be careful to react when you start to deviate from your course.
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You have this ability in hip hop to be invincibly cool, and that is a part of G-Eazy.
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People forget I go to work. They forget that the Coleridge house was bought and paid for by the daughter of a travel agent and a barmaid from what the actor Richard Burton once described as the nightmarish 'featureless suburb' of Croydon.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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As the future is never known with certainty, the evaluation of the prospective benefits requires the formation of expectations. An acceptable house, partner or job, then, is one that offers an expected stream of future benefit that has a value in excess of the option to continue to search for an even better alternative.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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Forget the technique. Hit the guy across from you. Don't let somebody come in your space.
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I love to see a wood full of bluebells. Growing up in the Kent countryside, I have special memories of this brief annual spectacle.
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Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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At first, Uniqlo was a casual chain on the back streets of Hiroshima. Then... we became a national brand in Japan. So, the next step is to become a global brand.
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I'm very happy to have the heritage that I do, but I'm not wanting to be 'the Latino actor.' I just want to be 'an actor.'
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For me, it's not necessarily interesting to play a strong, fearless woman. It's interesting to play a woman who is terrified and then overcomes that fear. It's about the journey. Courage is not the absence of fear, it's overcoming it.
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Televisions and radios are locked on government frequencies - it is a serious crime to listen to a foreign broadcast. As a result, North Koreans think that they live in the best country in the world and that, as difficult as their lives may be, everybody else has it much worse.
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You know, if you have a zoo you don't want the other creatures to see you. You want them to hang out and act properly and, you know, when the monkeys will come and ask for the bananas, they won't act like monkeys. If you want them to act on what their true nature is, you've got to leave them alone.
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Rocket science is tough, and rockets have a way of failing.
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I mean, the idea of losing a parent is really inconceivable. I think there's just an undertone of dread about the subject, so people don't talk about it and don't prepare for it.
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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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I was definitely inspired by gospel music, or old-school R&B; I got into some Good God gospel compilations.
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I think they're all trying to see who can walk through the coldest or hottest shower. Not sure which.
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A pattern has an integrity independent of the medium by virtue of which you have received the information that it exists.
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Does a firm persuasion that a thing is so, make it so?" He replied, "All poets believe it does. And in ages of imagination, this firm persuasion removes mountains; but many are not capable of firm persuasion of anything.
