William Blake Quotes
All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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We want a marriage with our customers, not a relationship.
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Corporations have enormous treasuries, and there are a lot of things they want from government, many of which clash with the public interest.
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I'm not better than anyone else. I'm not supposed to be on a pedestal. I've always stayed away from that.
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To put me through school my morn had to work, so I was a latchkey kid.
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Shakespeare is a wonderful language to speak, but it's also a world to get your mind into thematically.
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For years I had lived in my body half-consciously, ignoring it mostly, dismissing its agendas wherever I could, and forever pressing it into the service of mental conceptions that resulted, almost as a by-product, sometimes in its pleasuring and sometimes in its abuse.
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America has much greatness left in her.
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You know, a lot of things changed. What never changed is the illusion to keep playing tennis, the illusion to keep doing well the things, and the illusion to be in a good position of the ranking and play these kind of matches.
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I always try not to overload my music with orchestration and to use only those instruments that are absolutely necessary.
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My first gig was a Corn Pops commercial. I did the first Vanilla Coke campaign. A Juicy Fruit commercial paid my bills for years.
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There are lots of wonderful actors doing animated films these days, but I prefer it when you can't recognise them - it means they've really become the character.
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I've done hundreds of interviews on guns. I'm against people who use guns. I don't like guns, but I've never yelled at anyone.
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We are symbols, and inhabit symbols.
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Even when I was rebelling against my father, the point was to follow my own intuition and instinct.
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If you ever want to tame your inner demons, you must consciously choose never to become too attached to any particular life plan - and always remain open to the idea that there might be an even better life plan for you.
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If you act externally with men in conformity with your rank, you should recognize, by a more secret but truer thought, that you have nothing naturally superior to them.
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The United States government can indict you on something, and now you've got to prove your innocence. And that's not the Constitution of the United States.
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To say that Nature displays intelligence doesn't make you a Christian fundamentalist. Einstein said as much, and a fascinating theory called the anthropic principle has been seriously considered by Stephen Hawking, among others.
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I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it.
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All pictures that's painted with sense and with thought / Are painted by madmen as sure as a groat; / For the greater the fool in the pencil more blest, / And when they are drunk they always paint best.
