William Cobbett Quotes
The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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I think it's flattering when people say I'm a role model, but I don't think I am. It depends on your outlook on the word 'role model.' I'm not perfect or anything. I just consider it a great compliment.
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I think what 'The Monster' means to me is I find it really hard - like a lot of other people in the world - to really be OK in my own skin. It was a message to myself saying, 'It's OK that you're not perfect.' I'm gonna learn to love myself and accept myself, even though I'm a little crazy.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.
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What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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The problem with rich lists is... it is impossible to know what someone is worth until they have died and you have sold it.
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I like to give my inhibitions a bath now and then.
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I come from a family of refugees. I'm used to surviving and going with the flow, and what happened to me was just life.
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I love the ubiquitous idly-dosa combination. In fact, that was my pet name as a kid! In school, I would bug the canteen boys to get me my daily quota of idly!
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I'm in love with music, and I'm pregnant by it. It's like having twins. Or triplets. Or eight-lets!
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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I just feel like whenever the team needs a bucket, I can come and get it. I feel I'm a really good scorer.
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Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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I want to thank the pioneering women who years ago opened the doors of politics in Costa Rica. My government will be open to all Costa Ricans of good faith.
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Obviously, you always hope you're going to get on with people you work with.
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Neal Stephenson is great. He can write about a white wall for six pages, and it sounds fascinating. I read the whole 'Baroque Cycle' and 'Cryptonomicon.'
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The idea that everything is purposeful really changes the way you live. To think that everything that you do has a ripple effect, that every word that you speak, every action that you make affects other people and the planet.
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The world has changed. People have amazing access to whatever they want, whenever they want it.
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'Johnny Tremain,' Paul Revere's Ride, today's Tea Partiers - you have to tune all that out to get at the real story.
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Economic nationalism is what this country was built on. The American system.
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The Norfolk people are quick and smart in their motions and their speaking. Very neat and trim in all their farming concerns and very skilful. Their land is good, their roads are level, and the bottom of their soil is dry, to be sure; and these are great advantages; but they are diligent and make the most of everything.
