William Cullen Bryant Quotes
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I'm hard on myself. I'm my biggest critic.
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I walk around talking to myself in accents. Usually people look at me like I'm a complete fruit loop.
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I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.
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I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back, especially 'Stay With Me' when I finish the show. It kind of turns into an anthem when I perform it live, and it feels like there's a lot of love in the room.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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A system of education is not one thing, nor does it have a single definite object, nor is it a mere matter of schools. Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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I don't want to do the nerdy, goofy guy again. That was really fitting for the 'Napoleon' world, but that's kind of where I want it to stay.
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This is the first time in my life I've ever been happy, not completely happy, but happier than I've ever been.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.
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Her nakedness was not absolute, for like Manet's _Olympia__, behind her ear she had a poisonous flower with orange petals, and she also wore a gold bangle on her right wrist and a necklace of tiny pearls. I imagined I would never see anything more exciting for as long as I lived, and today I can confirm that I was right.
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The man to solitude accustom'd long, Perceives in everything that lives a tongue; Not animals alone, but shrubs and trees Have speech for him, and understood with ease, After long drought when rains abundant fall, He hears the herbs and flowers rejoicing all.
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If I'm going to get in these races and run against the best guys, I'm going to be there with them. And if I die, then I die, but I'm not going to walk away from the track saying, 'I didn't give everything.' Ever again.
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The gentle race of flowers Are lying in their lowly beds.
