William Cobbett Quotes
Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
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I love New York. It's one of my favorite cities.
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Nonviolence is fine as long as it works.
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I am very happy since when I am in different cities I can experience and learn different cultures!
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I'm fine with being a little bit of an instigator.
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Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
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To create man was a fine and original idea; but to add the sheep was a tautology.
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I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.
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I think my manager of 30-some odd years now, Tom Hammond. He's as fine a person as you could ever meet. And he's had great theatrical taste and has influenced me that way.
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Touring is very grueling. It's very taxing on the body and living out of your suitcase, going from city to city, night after night. It's a tough job.
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I have reached the stage now where luxury is not in fine possessions but in carefree possessions, and the greatest luxury of all would be the completely expendable.
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We're playing like we are capable of playing. If we can continue to play like this we'll be fine.
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[On women in previously all-male fields:] I think it will change in a lot of workplaces. I'm not so sure it will ever change on Capitol Hill until more women are in powerful positions. Because this is the last plantation for men.
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Liberals in blue states working in blue enclaves within blue cities that are producing the media, don't even see that their positions fit on the spectrum as left of center.
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There is a lovely road that runs from Ixopo into the hills...
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The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.
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I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses.
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Remove justice, and what are kingdoms but gangs of criminals on a large scale?... A gang is a group of men... in which the plunder is divided according to an agreed convention. If this villainy... acquires territory, establishes a base, captures cities and subdues people, it then openly arrogates to itself the title of kingdom.
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The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to us than the city of happiness. I cannot describe it at all. It is possible it does not exist. But they seem to know where they are going, the ones who walk away from Omelas.
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A farm is an irregular patch of nettles bounded by short-term notes, containing a fool and his wife who didn't know enough to stay in the city.
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The fame and the money and all that stuff that comes along with it is all great, but that's not the sole purpose of why I make music.
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Unless a person has trained himself for his chance, the chance will only make him ridiculous. A great occasion is worth to man exactly what his preparation enables him to make of it.
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The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.
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Norwich is a very fine city, and the castle, which stands in the middle of it, on a hill, is truly majestic.
