William Blake Quotes
The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It's been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign.
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In 1995, I founded a storytelling program for children called Neighborhood Bridges in collaboration with the Children's Theatre Company of Minneapolis, which is 15 elementary schools in the Twin Cities.
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I'm just not into happy-clappy pop. Unless it's happy-clappy pop in a good way.
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Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
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I definitely prefer working in comedy over drama, but at the same time, when it comes to comedy, I tend to prefer comedies that have a great sense of truth to them and that come from an honest place.
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I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.
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When leaders throughout an organization take an active, genuine interest in the people they manage, when they invest real time to understand employees at a fundamental level, they create a climate for greater morale, loyalty, and, yes, growth.
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No constitution is or can be perfectly symmetrical, what it can and must be is generally accepted as both fair and usable.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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The 5,000 or so acres of Royal Parks are one of the things that make London special.
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I'm a horrible perfectionist and very highly strung. That's why I do yoga: to unwind.
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To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken's music.
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I use the rules to frustrate the law. But I didn't set up the ground rules.
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My friends call me Miss Worst Case Scenario.
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You don't mow another man's lawn!
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I grew up with British rock.
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Why do those who keep insisting Jesus hung out with sinners also keep insisting there's no such thing as sin?
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Curiosity, which may or may not eventuate in something useful, is probably the most outstanding characteristic of modern thinking ... Institutions of learning should be devoted to the cultivation of curiosity, and the less they are deflected by the consideration of immediacy of application, the more likely they are to contribute not only to human welfare, but to the equally important satisfaction of intellectual interest, which may indeed be said to have become the ruling passion of intellectual life in modern times.
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She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced.
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This is the secret of joy. We shall no longer strive for our own way; but commit ourselves, easily and simply, to God's way, acquiesce in His will, and in so doing find our peace.
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Runnin' through the alley and into the melee. Up on the second the sundown. Those run from January, November, December remember the 1st of the month.
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childhood was not a time in a person's life, but a country, a country under siege, from which certain individuals were taken too soon and never allowed to return. All people were exiled eventually, but whatever happened to them there marked them all their days.
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The countless gold of a merry heart, The rubies and pearls of a loving eye, The indolent never can bring to the mart, Nor the secret hoard up in his treasury.
