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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As far as directors, I'm a big fan of any kind of Billy Wilder stuff. Anything he does.
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...what's always exciting is when you hear something amazing when you least expected it. Every now and then I'll hear something for the first time that forces me to re-examine my frames of reference, and re-consider musical parameters in general, and that's wonderful . And what's even more wonderful in a way, is when you hear something that you know, and already think you have an opinion about, and then suddenly discover that it isn't what you thought it was, but something quite different, which makes it just as surprising as if you'd never heard it before. That's REALLY great!
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Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.
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My singing... I'll just say it simple as possible: it's just godly.
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I'm forever testing myself. As a person and as an actor, I have no sense of competition.
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What is now proved was once only imagined.
