William Cobbett Quotes
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Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.
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I'm not much of a jokester.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.
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One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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A well-aimed spear is worth three.
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Each poem in becoming generates the laws by which it is generated: extensions of the laws to other poems never completely take.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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I think my sweet spot is to make personal films on not-too-big budgets and also make other people's films, bringing productions to Iceland, upping the business here.
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I need one psychological expert to help me concentrate.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
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The Sino-Indian War in 1962 has fundamentally shaped and distorted Indian attitudes towards China. It also obscured a great deal of what has happened in China since 1962.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.
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Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I love classic beauty. It’s an idea of beauty with no standard.
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'Wild Things' is saying, 'I don't have to belong anywhere. This is where I belong.' It's a place in the back of my mind that I created, and it's cool, and I love it here.
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In every area, we seem to have thrown everything away and embraced reality television. It's nauseating, programme after programme.
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The great virtue, I think, of studying Aristotle - and, more importantly, taking him seriously as a possible teacher - is that he presents an alternative view of both science and the world.
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Happiness, or misery, is in the mind. It is the mind that lives.
