William Godwin Quotes
No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
Quotes to Explore
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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Well, a friend in need is a friend indeed.
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I enjoy getting gussied up for an event or date night.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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I would play my Dungeons and Dragons songs and watch people's eyes glaze over, and then I would start joking around between songs, and all of a sudden people were lighting up and engaging.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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I really love having conversations and deconstructing things. I don't mind not having a laugh every second. Sometimes things deserve a little more discussion, and then you can have some fun after that.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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You put a lot of pressure on your defenders to be able to hold the fort when you go forward.
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I think social media, it in a way forces companies to be more authentic or more transparent because it gives a voice to the consumer and a reach to the consumer that they didn't have before.
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What I'm working is for peace on ground between Israelis and Palestinians through business, through economy, through quality of life.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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You can tell all our songs come from us and from our artists, the people we write with and travel with.
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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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You always have a choice — So what now,? — Well, just picture where you want to be... and read the story until the end.
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I could write and help a lot of kids, or teach and help a few and go nuts.
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You have to have as many defences in place as you possibly can. But even then of course - and it's important to stress this - you cannot guarantee being able to prevent every attack or every kind of attack.
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Imagine someone so infatuated by a band that they have every different pressing of every album the band made. Most of the time, the only difference in the album is the matrix number or a different 'made in' notation on the back cover or label. This is enough to make some people extremely excited. Actually, much more than excited.
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A Johnsonian portentousness emanated from him.
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No maxim can be more pernicious than that which would teach us to consult the temper of the times, and to tell only so much as we imagine our contemporaries will be able to bear.
