William Blake Quotes
What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
Quotes to Explore
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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I've never been one to run from a challenge.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love to have.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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Every concert I've finished with the knowledge I've played a fistful of wrong notes.
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We want to see Israel withdraw from our territory. But we don't want to be accountable vis-a-vis Israel on the security basis, because we don't see, in the absence of a peace agreement, that Lebanon can really be accountable to Israel if anything happens.
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Santorum is the greatest person on the face of the planet as far as I'm concerned.
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Geniuses don't have better ideas than the rest of us. They just have more of them.
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As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
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It might be, it could be... it is! A home run!
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The Iranian government still denies the Holocaust - so you can't take them seriously. And the Israeli government spreads rumours and disinformation about Iran - because it needs to for the creation of panic. I find these theological states - and in this respect, Israel and Iran are twin brothers - very, very dangerous.
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Technological discoveries are the spermatozoa of social change.
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You reach a point in your career when the weeks turn into a month or more of the phone not ringing.
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Death ends a life, not a relationship.
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In the course of the reform, some new circumstances that we had not anticipated have appeared.
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The tax code rewards corporations for outsourcing jobs, and their profits overseas, instead of investing here in the United States.
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Love is the intuitive knowledge of our hearts.
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If you are a 5-year-old, you just go ahead and try something. You don't think about it. You are just a little kid.
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I think it takes a larger nature to receive nobly than to give nobly.
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What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.
