William Blake Quotes
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A drunkard would not give money to sober people. He said they would only eat it, and buy clothes and send their children to school with it.
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Don't manage - lead change before you have to.
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I always carry lip balm and lipstick. Lipstick is a very important beauty product because I find that lips are the most beautiful feature of anyone's face.
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I think some people think I'm, like, anti-label, and I'm not. I just wanted to sign a deal when the time was right. I'm anti being shot out of a rocket when you're not ready and the songs and image aren't there.
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My first show was in front of 30,000 people with will.i.am, and I wasn't even that nervous.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.
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I do Yoga. I'd like to say I do it every morning, but I don't, I just don't have the time.
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I'm really into Greek yogurt, fruit and almonds. Those are my 'go-to' snacks.
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The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has touched me deeply to see so many thousands of families, neighbors and friends celebrating together in such a happy atmosphere.
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I feel that 'Tokoyo Drift' blew people away because not many people had high expectations for it.
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It is a profound and necessary truth that the deep things in science are not found because they are useful: they are found because it was possible to find them.
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I have never appreciated a quiet moment with a friend as much, a quiet moment with a book and I think part of that is my obsession with being older and time going faster and it's become increasingly sweeter for me.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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I first met my husband when I was 15. He was very cool, in a band, all that kind of thing, but he took a long time to grow up. Our paths crossed again 10 years later, and after about two weeks I knew that was it. I'm glad I met him when I did, even though I was fairly young. Because I think sometimes you can crystallise into singledom.
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I love performing in front of an audience. I like the questions; I like controversy.
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If I lose, I lose. I'll do it on my terms.
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For sight is woman-like and shuns the old.
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The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost.
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The Hungarians, by nature, are not extreme. They become more extreme only when they are forced to fight for their freedom, as was in the case in the uprising against the communists in 1956 or the revolution against the Austrian Empire. They will not turn extreme in the name of despotism.
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Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.
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When Sir Joshua Reynolds died All Nature was degraded.
