William Cobbett Quotes
Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
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I don't think anyone should write their autobiography until after they're dead.
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All the women in my family are very dramatic by themselves. They make the biggest things out of nothing. I think that's where I learned a lot about being emotional.
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I used to think I had ambition... but now I'm not so sure. It may have been only discontent. They're easily confused.
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Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
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I'll never do a film because it's a massive budget and I'm gonna get lots of publicity for it and it will bring something else.
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To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.
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I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
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When you were on stage, you could be absolutely open about your emotions and indulge them and express yourself in a way that - in real life - I wasn't doing.
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When we say a show is successful, it's because, relative to the investment, it's successful, relative to how else we would have spent that money on licensing something else, does this creation - did it attract the audience that it was built for.
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Every human walks around with a certain kind of sadness. They may not wear it on their sleeves, but it's there if you look deep.
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Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty.
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I feel like I've been the star of my own show for a while now. I was always putting on shows as a kid, and obviously, my household was really creative.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Whether we're Democrats or Republicans or independents, we have to learn to hang together or we're gonna hang separately.
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The media is controlled.
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I've always wondered why there isn't a great French novel about the German occupation. The nouveau roman authors weren't interested in telling that sort of thing.
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I follow a simple formula when I compose. I ask myself, 'What would the audience want to hear?' and 'Why would they buy my CDs?' And the process of answering these questions through music follows. Sometimes, it works. Sometimes, it backfires.
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I stay excited 'cause for me, this is something I love to do. I'm like Coca Cola with it. I been here for a long time, I just gotta keep it nice and stay up to date and also give them that quality taste that they been looking for. It's nothing to me. When you built for it, you born for it, you do it cuz you wanna do it, not cuz you have to.
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I've traveled around the world.
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I just know keeping track of what I'm doing and where I'm going is important to me.
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I'd love DonorsChoose.org to become a place where teachers can post innovative, out-of-the-box projects that they can't get funding for traditionally.
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If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
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Be you in what line of life you may, it will be amongst your misfortunes if you have not time properly to attend to [money management]; for. ... want of attention to pecuniary matters ... has impeded the progress of science and of genius itself.
