William Empson Quotes
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If you know you are giving your best effort, you'll never have any reason for regrets.
Naveen Jain
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Because of my own family's service (in the U.S. Army, Navy, and Massachusetts and New York National Guard), I am a strong supporter of the military and do believe that there are just wars.
Camille Paglia
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I kind of always took it for granted the fact that my parents were Olympic medalists.
Taylor Phinney
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I never judge my own songwriting. It's just my heart. What's there to judge about your own heart?
Banks
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
Salman Rushdie
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A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist.
R. Buckminster Fuller
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'The Simpsons' money got bigger and bigger. When I left 'The Simpsons', no one thought that this thing was going to still be around. It's the cumulative effect. It's like, 'Oh my God, 25 years later, and it's still coming in.'
Sam Simon
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I've had much nastier things said about me in the British press than in the Bosnian press.
Paddy Ashdown
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Whenever I visited China in the past, the relationships always felt superficial; there was no time where I felt those moments of conflict and delight that make you feel close to another person. But since I started touring there in 2004, I would always collaborate with local musicians, and that opened up a new level of intimacy.
Abigail Washburn
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
Wadada Leo Smith
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As an actor, I think you should always disappear a little. I act in order to lose myself.
Vincent Cassel
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The Latin musical tradition is very rich and gives the singer a lot of freedom to explore a range of.
Ednita Nazario
