William Cobbett Quotes
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I'm trying to mix the cool, independent stuff with the big stuff, but it's been difficult finding the right roles. It's been an interesting ride as far as my career pendulum is concerned.
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Politics and the pulpit are terms that have little agreement.
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
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I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
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Where issues used to be, say, parochial or local in Ireland or England and so forth, all politics is global now because all business is global.
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Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
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I'm not sophisticated when it comes to politics, when it comes to journalism.
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I am an independent, strong-willed, free, and unfettered individual who lets his wife decide for him what he wants to eat.
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We all live in the moment, and we often mistakenly believe that what is true today was true always. Not so in politics, and especially in Congressional elections.
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On the other side, I do believe that the rhetoric we are seeing from the Democrats today is unprecedented, is a new low in presidential politics and goes beyond political discourse and amounts to political hate speech.
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We are wiser than we know.
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I love Rihanna. She represents that strong, independent woman that you cannot keep down.
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America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.
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I've always been singing all my life, but I started playing guitar when I was 19, and that was my final year in university, in law school. I think that happened when I started making a lot of friends who were in the independent music scene.
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The democratic system is premised on trust in the masses' wisdom. We believe that the collective is wiser than its parts and that, at the end of the day, it shall make the right choices and take the right decisions.
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It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.
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The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
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This truly is the God of lesser glory, because of his lesser knowledge, lesser wisdom, lesser discernment, lesser ability, lesser reliability, and lesser guidance.
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I saw 'On The Town' about nine times. I discovered it. I loved it. I was in college.
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I think for Wes Anderson and me, the most important thing was James L. Brooks producing our first movie and giving us a chance to come to Hollywood, because without him, we might never have gotten the chance.
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To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
