William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
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This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.
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The Cold War did end in the victory of one side and in the defeat of the other. This reality cannot be denied, despite the understandable sensitivities that such a conclusion provokes among the tenderhearted in the West and some of the former leaders of the defeated side.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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My parents always encouraged us to get an education and establish a profession. However, my brothers and I grew up with considerable freedom, whether it was saving or spending our tips from the restaurant or our career choices.
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Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.
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I really found this campaign odious. I couldn't get up for it. The quality of the candidates and the campaign, I just found the whole thing second-rate. I didn't know how to explain to my granddaughter that I was spending my dotage writing about Al Gore and George W. Bush.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty.
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Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.
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Once the kids are in school, it's amazing what you can do.
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I started riding the whole 'fluffy' train, and it's a cute word and socially a lot more acceptable than someone saying is fat or obese. If you call a girl 'fat,' yo, she'll raise hell, but if you say, 'Aw girl, look at you, you're fluffy,' there's almost a sexy appeal to it.
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It is indeed hard for the strong to be just to the weak, but acting justly always has its rewards.
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You know, we're really destroying ourselves because we're really making the motivating force of anything we do selfish.
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People throw things at me sometimes, at big festivals.
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Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.
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We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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Anger is the right response to something that is so wrong. But don't let the anger and pain and loss you feel prevent you from forgiving him and removing your hands from around his neck.
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I love Tom Kenny. And Jill Talley. And Jennifer Aniston, too!
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Love and despair go hand in hand.
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I believe that the power of literature is stronger than the power of tyranny.
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Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
