William Blake Quotes
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You're not a historian, but most historians will tell you that they make very discrete judgment as to what facts to omit in order to make their book into some shape, some length that can be managed.
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More than trends, consumers need functionality. Everything needs an element of fashion, but that's more like a spice.
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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless.
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The C student starts a restaurant. The A student writes restaurant reviews.
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I style my roles mostly with some help from my team of stylists.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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The other writer who had a very important early influence on me when I was about 17 was C.S. Lewis.
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There were a lot of times people would do my makeup, and it would be awful, and I would be orange. Nothing matched. So then you learn how to do your own makeup. I watched a lot of YouTube videos when I was little and taught myself.
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The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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Sometimes I pay for it, With the way I walk now, the things I did to my body wasn't supposed to be done. At 48 years old, it is saying, 'Hey, Earl, remember what you did to me?'.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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Lester is the Rock of Gibraltar. Nothing can rattle him. I am not. I was always flying off the handle about things. And the one person who could calm me down and make me realize that none of this silliness mattered was Lester Holt.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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A lot of times, I played bass on songs. Gene plays guitar on some songs.
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I'm definitely a guitar player, but it's the last thing I listen to in a song, after the singer and the drums.
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The poem goes form the poet’s gibberish to The gibberish of the vulgate and back again.
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I grew up having to piss in a bucket ’cos there was no indoor shitter, and now I have these computerised Japanese super-loo things that have heated seats and wash and blow-dry your arse at the touch of a button. Give it a couple of years and I’ll have a bog with a robot arm that pulls out my turds, so I don’t have to strain.
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Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.
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You make me chuckle when you say that you are no longer young, that you have turned twenty-four. A man is or may be young to after sixty, and not old before eighty.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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To the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
