William Blake Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
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In our Western culture, although death has come out of the closet, it is still not openly experienced or discussed. Allowing dying to be so intensely present enriches both the preciousness of each moment and our detachment from it.
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Age is just a number. If someone can perform at 45, who will stop that fellow from playing top-level cricket?
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There is no better high than discovery.
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I always like to have a buffer between me and journalism in general. Not just a reporter, but journalism.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
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I'm very pro-American - my entire family escaped poverty in Italy because they rightly believed in the American dream.
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I didn't know that I could do a talk show. I didn't know that we could bring variety to daytime. I didn't know that people wanted to see singing, and dancing and comedy in the morning.
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Housework is a breeze. Cooking is a pleasant diversion. Putting up a retaining wall is a lark. But teaching is like climbing a mountain.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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While 'Friends' was about a 20-something population and what they were going through, they were also dealing with issues with their family.
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Many of our countrymen came to hate the war we fought. Those who hated it the most—the professionally sensitive—were not, in the end, sensitive enough to differentiate between the war and the soldiers who had been ordered to fight it. They hated us as well, and we went to ground in the cross fire, as we had learned in the jungles.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life. Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful.
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Bankruptcy is about financial death and financial rebirth. Bankruptcy is the great American story rewritten. We're a nation of debtors.
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He who sees the Infinite in all things sees God.
