William Empson Quotes
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The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence, it has often been argued, were fueled by the most radical of all American political ideas.
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What Whitney Houston has accomplished will never be accomplished. She's the most famous person on the planet as far as vocaling and her songs. So I'm very happy that I can sit here and say I had a chance to know her. And I'm still dazed that she's gone. But she lives because her music is so powerful.
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What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.
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I love trying to forge a contract between creator and audience in which we are able to meet halfway, each injecting a part of our own experiences into a story that's being told.
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One of the greatest gifts I've ever gotten is my daughter.
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I'm a big Otis Redding fan, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye. My hero is David Bowie. But I like the Beatles, the Stones.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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At Linkabit, we put little effort and energy into patenting things.
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Acting isn't the be-all end-all. There are a lot of other things in my life that will bring me joy if I didn't act anymore.
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An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.
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As an actor, you can do what you want with your role. That's why they hire you; to take the role and make it real.
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There are moments when we are incapable of exchanging a single word with anybody…it’s beyond us…
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You can't make your kids what you want them to be. They are who they are and you have to help them to succeed in the world as best you can.
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I'm not alone, I'm free. I no longer have to be a credit, I don't have to be a symbol to anybody; I don't have to be a first to anybody.
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My current motto is to go for it, whatever it is that inspires you.
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Could've sworn I heard you say Amen this morning, showing some kind of sign that you believe. Did it fall from your tongue without warning? Or just another trick to fall from your sleeve?
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The first time I ever saw him play, Tre Cool was wearing a tutu and an old-womans swimming cap.
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No one has been a greater advocate for the power of love in this world than I; both in my life and in my music.
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We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.
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If you did everything your mind told you to do, you do some really strange stuff. You'll probably be in jail, you'll be in trouble. But, it's all about control. We all have to control our feelings. That's the thing that separates us from animals.
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If you are worshipping God without depending on the Spirit of God, you are serving a god you do not know.
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Forgive me for being so ordinary while claiming to know so extraordinary a God.
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The right to unite freely and to separate freely is the first and most important of all political rights.
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It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.
