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.
Sabine Baring-Gould -
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?
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I was put on a pony as a kid at some birthday party when you're all led around.
Victoria Pendleton -
Nothing is a better icebreaker than a great joke.
Dane Cook -
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.
Gary Hamel -
I've known Bret Michaels forever.
Eddie Trunk
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Young people want you to be real with them.
Magic Johnson -
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.
Kat Graham -
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.
Natasha Trethewey -
I love Taco Bell. Whenever I go there, I could get anything on the menu and be totally happy.
Chris Massoglia -
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.
Claire Denis
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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.
Pramila Jayapal -
Meaning comes from the capacity to see what is not in some simple, objective sense there on the printed page.
David Souter -
Making your Christmas cake in September is perfect, as too fresh a cake crumbles when cut.
Mary Berry -
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.
Kathy Acker -
Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle: she died young.
John Webster -
Tragedy without comedy is melodrama, and comedy without a higher purpose is vacant.
Jesse Kellerman
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I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people.
Abraham Lincoln -
For me, the melancholy of the late XXth Century is walking late at night by the Mont Blanc pen store and seeing these things always strike me as simulacra of luxury items. They seem like fakes.
William Gibson -
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.
D. H. Lawrence -
Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
E. M. Forster -
I used to keep injuries to myself. It would just make it worse and worse. Now I'm having none of that.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson -
A dead body revenges not injuries.
William Blake