William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The ox suffers, the cart complains.
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The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer.
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Control what you can control. Don't lose sleep worrying about things that you don't have control over because, at the end of the day, you still won't have any control over them.
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I would like to be a legend, everyone wants to be a legend.
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I write novels and other things.
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Can ye fathom the ocean, dark and deep, where the mighty waves and the grandeur sweep?
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Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical.
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The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
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A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks.
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No lifetime is long enough for those who wish to create, Raul. Or for those who simply wish to understand themselves and their lives. It is, perhaps, the curse of being human, but also a blessing.
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Where cultural representations do not reach out beyond themselves, there is the danger that they will function as the surrogates for activism, that they will constitute both the beginning and the end of political practice.
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I've been to almost every country in the world, and the most frustrating thing for me has been that my schedule has always been so busy that there's so little time before and after performances to explore where I'm visiting.
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I wouldn't change anything I went through for the world, because it got me here.
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It's crazy that the Constitution has to be amended to clarify what for the majority of Americans is a clear and true statement: corporations are not people.
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One thing they don't have out here in California is Rita's Italian Ices. We used to have one right next to our house and it was so good!
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The Sixties was a time of breaking down class barriers, although I think class still exists today in some areas.
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Little by little we human beings are confronted with situations that give us more and more clues that we aren't perfect.
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For years, I didn't give interviews because I was scared of people judging me or thinking I was arrogant.
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I would like to say something deeper, but for me, I saw a production of "Fences" in Rhode Island and a fabulous actress played Rose, but when she first came on the stage she was mad. You could just see it. She was all, "Troy stop!" So by the time you get to the revelation scene, I didn't think she loved him, so there was no loss. I think that the real tragedy and the real drama or the thing that makes you lean in is to see the love, to see the commitment. To see the fact that Rose is invested in this marriage no matter what.
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I was a workaholic. I never stopped. I lived in fifth gear. I bought cars. I invested in stocks. I made more money than I had ever imagined.
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In our sensible zeal to keep religion from dominating our politics, we have created a political and legal culture that presses the religiously faithful to be other than themselves, to act publicly, and sometimes privately as well, as though their faith does not matter to them.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
