William Blake Quotes
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
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I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.
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I'm a lot luckier than most people, although I used to look at it the other way around-that so many people seemed luckier than me.
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Some people have a taboo about doing advertising in the States. You know, where they kind of make their bread and butter. But to me, that's crazy.
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True success, true happiness lies in freedom and fulfillment.
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I recall playing practical jokes with John Wayne. I once got a whole bunch of keys and had little tags made that said, 'If lost, please return to John Wayne, RKO Studios. Reward.' And I just dropped them all over town. He got a lot of phone calls, people showing up at the studio. He never learned who did it.
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He that dies in extreme old age will be reduced to the same state with him that is cut down untimely.
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I'm big on research.
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It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.
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I have no idea whether I'm any good or not. Still waiting, like most actors, for somebody to find out one day that I can't do it.
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Come sleep, O sleep, the certain knot of peace,The baiting place of wit, the balm of woe,The poor man’s wealth, the prisoner’s release,The indifferent judge between the high and low.
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‘You cheated.’ ‘No, I exploited a weakness in my opponent. There is a difference.’
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Perhaps one day earthquakes, hurricanes and financial crashes will all be predictable. But we don't have to wait until then for seismology, meteorology and economics to become sciences; they already are.
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Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her away from the rest of the world, I want to be the one to walk in the sun.
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It is important for us to make a distinction between the spiritual fruit of joy and the cultural concept of happiness. A Christian can have joy in his heart while there is still spiritual depression in his head. The joy that we have sustains us through these dark nights and is not quenched by spiritual depression. The joy of the Christian is one that survives all downturns in life.
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But, by just being myself, I end up touching a lot more people who might never have paid much attention to a female rapper.
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Once we played at the Fillmore opposite The Cream. Eric Clapton was there and he played his ass off that night ... backstage Michael Bloomfield introduced me to Eric, and Eric was so nice. He came up to me, put his arms around me and said "Barry, it's such a pleasure to meet you" ... I couldn't figure it out... then Michael told me that he had told Eric I had cancer and two months to live...
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Imperialism or globalization - I don't have to care what it's called to hate it.
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They're trying to kill me before I'm dead. I come to Quebec to spend some time with my family and they say I'm dead.
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I don't really go out partying, but I'm definitely a social butterfly.
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Kill not the moth nor butterfly, For the Last Judgement draweth nigh.
