William Blake Quotes
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma.
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Women's propensity to share confidences is universal. We confirm our reality by sharing.
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Almost every character I've ever played - and sometimes this is very conscious and sometimes it's not - I need to find what they love.
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I don't make romantic films. I make films about human relationships.
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My Shangri-la has gone away, Faded like the Beatles on Hey Jude She seemed to drift out on the rain That came in somewhere softly from the blue.
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Greatness is not measured by what a man or woman accomplishes, but by the opposition he or she has overcome to reach his goals.
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One of the biggest wake-up calls of my career was when I saw a record contract. I said, 'Wait - you sell it for $18.98 and I make 80 cents? And I have to pay you back the money you lent me to make it and then you own it?'
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More things in politics happen by accident or exhaustion than happen by conspiracy.
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It was both comforting and terrifying to go in to audition for 'The Girl in the Cafe,' as I'd worked with everyone in the room on 'State Of Play.'
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We all have a social responsibility and have to be mindful of what we do and say.
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If there are but few who interest thee, why shouldst thou be disappointed if but few find thee interesting?
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I'm in awe of the AIDS workers in Africa who teach there, year in and year out.
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I played the coronet first, and then I upgraded to the trumpet. First song I learned on there was 'Hot Cross Buns.'
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People who speak or act in an ordinary fashion are most likely to be those who have been the recipients of higher experiences. But because they do not rage around, wild-eyed, people think that they are very ordinary folk and therefore not aware of anything unknown to the general run of man.
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Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.
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I'm no stranger to weight issues. I've had cellulite since I was about nine years old. I have enjoyed the uber support of Spanx many times.
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From a short-sided view, the whole moving contents of the heavens seemed to them a parcel of stones, earth and other soul-less bodies, though they furnish the sources of the world order.
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I think the reason my stories have been so successful is that I have a strong sense of metaphor.
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Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship.
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Prudence as well as Moral Virtue determines the complete performance of a man's proper function: Virtue ensures the rightness of the end we aim at, Prudence ensures the rightness of the means we adopt to gain that end.
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There are some who wish to learn for no other reason than that they may be looked upon as learned, which is ridiculous vanity ... Others desire to learn that they may morally instruct others, that is love. And, lastly, there are some who wish to learn that they may be themselves edified; and that is prudence.
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Prudence is a rich, ugly, old maid courted by incapacity.
