William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I write in a small office at home.
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I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.
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Unfortunately, there is still much to mine in this world and explore creatively.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I don't know what's going to happen in life, so I don't think it's fair that I know what's going to happen in 'Homeland.'
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I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.
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All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk through, and one to pull rabbits out of if elected.
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I definitely support cop acting more than cops, but all of them ain't bad, just some of them.
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For me, California is all about rest, relaxation, space.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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Most people don't know what they spend in every single area, but they know they have a problem in particular areas.
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Statistical studies are all over the lot about the pluses and minuses of raising the minimum wage.
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The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing.
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Even a beautiful piece of work can be overshadowed, destroyed, by something else.
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One of the things that I was always, and still am, is quite resourceful.
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You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
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When I was in school, I was very involved with a lot of things. I was very very active. I couldn't say that I wasn't popular. I was a cheerleader when I was in junior high. I didn't make it in high school so I started a dance line.
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History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.
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However ugly a face may be, we can discover some beauty in it if we first experience wonder before it and then begin to understand it, too.
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There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that--perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims...
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Everything is beautiful in its own way. Exuberance is beauty.
