William Blake Quotes
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I shake hands on the first date.
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Medicine also disregards national boundaries.
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You can spend your life competing in a world that talks too loud / You can lose your own direction getting lost among the crowd / Confusion - is it any wonder that the road ahead's not clear / Well you can try too hard to find it now I realise it's here
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I like to be in a huis clos, as the French say - in one place. It's something that in general can create a bit of claustrophobia. But for me, claustrophobia becomes almost immediately claustrophilia. I love it!
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None of my movies have ever made any money, so it's not about commercial success for me. It's always the same thing. I want to create something valuable, something unusual and different that the world has never seen.
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I'm definitely scared about newspapers. The problem is nobody wants to catch a falling knife, and nobody knows where things will stabilise. The value of newspapers has dropped significantly. I think we still have more pain to be felt.
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My dad was in my life, and he was actually a very positive influence on me in my life. He was always there. He was a great dad. But my parents divorced when I was 5, so I grew up in a single-parent home.
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I'm honored when young people say they've gone to school on slide guitar with my records. But people get their influence from my live shows and records and YouTube, not me personally. I walk around with a hat on. People don't know it's me.
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I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine.
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The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
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We must unify Taiwan; we cannot afford to have our society being divided in half.
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Go into something because you really like it, and then do it with a drive and enthusiasm so that it isn't work.
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If through a broken heart God can bring His purposes to pass in the world, then thank Him for breaking your heart.
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Every one of us gets through the tough times because somebody is there, standing in the gap to close it for us.
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My heart spasmed among the peonies like a trout.
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You cannot experience the death of anybody
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Exploitation and oppression is not a matter of race. It is the system, the apparatus of world-wide brigandage called imperialism, which made the Powers behave the way they did. I have no illusions on this score, nor do I believe that any Asian nation or African nation, in the same state of dominance, and with the same system of colonial profit-amassing and plunder, would have behaved otherwise.
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Endurance is the prerogative of woman, enabling the gentlest to suffer what would cause terror to manhood.
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I believe that the intention of Holy Writ was to persuade men of the truths necessary to salvation; such as neither science nor other means could render credible, but only the voice of the Holy Spirit.
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I don't need the perfect one, I just need somebody who will make me feel like I'm the only one.
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I myself do nothing. The Holy Spirit accomplishes all through me.