William Blake Quotes
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In 1559, Duke Frederick III was summoned before the Emperor Ferdinand I at Breslau to answer the accusations of extravagance and oppression brought against him by the Silesian Estates and was deposed, imprisoned, and his son Henry XI given the Ducal crown instead.
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I have been struck by the pervasive frequency of pompously patriotic ads for the defense industry, usually accompanied by deferential salutations to our men and women who are heroically sacrificing their lives in our defense. Do we really need all of that for our security?
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I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
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Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
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I'm a capitalist by conviction and profession. I believe the best economic system is one that rewards entrepreneurship and risk-taking, maximizes customer choice, uses markets to allocate scarce resources and minimizes the regulatory burden on business.
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I've known Bret Michaels forever.
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Young people want you to be real with them.
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I have to hear more live instrumentation, more band and more funk, and I don't hear enough of it, so I created it myself.
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I overheard things in the Woolworths when I was a child, people saying, 'Oh, poor, little thing,' as if they had some understanding that I was being born biracial into a world that was still very difficult for interracial marriages and biracial children.
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I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there, I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.
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It's fun to work with men. They don't bully you. On the contrary, they guide you and become one of your buddies.
Jacqueline Fernandez -
I think cinema is linked to literature by a lot of social ways. Our brains are full of literature - my brain is.
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If there is one thing that resonates for women, it is that regardless of where we come from or what we look like, we want to be fully recognized for the breadth of our contributions.
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Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.
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Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
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Every book, remember, is dead until a reader activates it by reading. Every time that you read you are walking among the dead, and, if you are listening, you just might hear prophecies. Aeneas did. Odysseus did. Listen to Delany, a prophet.
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Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
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Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
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I don't have kids, but I know that you want them to follow their dreams, while at the same time, you don't want them to be sitting around, hoping that dream is just going to come. I'm sure that's hard to tell your kids.
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The more I see of democracy the more I dislike it. It just brings everything down to the mere vulgar level of wages and prices, electric light and water closets, and nothing else.
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We don't need to reinvent manliness. We only need to will ourselves to wake up from the bad dream of the last few generations and reclaim it, in order to extend and enrich that tradition under the formidable demands of the present.
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Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself.
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There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
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A dead body revenges not injuries.
