William Godwin Quotes
My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
Quotes to Explore
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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You know when you're 14 and terrified to talk to a girl? I didn't suffer much from that. It seemed very natural to me to talk to girls.
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Some people change when they think they're a star or something.
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Sometimes I play cricket, and I play badminton.
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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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If there's a will, prosperity can't be far behind.
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I certainly feel that an adult woman has a right to determine what happens to her life and body.
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When you're not involved, other people's unhappiness seems to be about the funniest damn thing on earth because you think you can solve it, that you are God, that you are above this, and that their unhappiness is just such useless toil and agony. If it's you, it ceases to be a comedy.
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If all our comrades of Europe, America and other countries, who do not understand what we are doing to Spanish Anarchism, would come to Spain, we could then see how they would react.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'
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Police can only act on intelligence.
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The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
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I'm always thinking, 'My goodness, I got booked again!' So I am really happy to still be working.
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From the first moment that I can remember, I had identified myself as a bass player and it had everything to do with my father, who was a bass player. And he loved music, you know, as much as anybody I've ever seen. And that dynamic I just thought as somehow was a straight pass to me.
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I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
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We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.
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Obama wants to be thought of as the president who freed us from foreign oil. But if he doesn't show some political courage, he may well be remembered as the president who cooked the planet.
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What gives my books authenticity is that I actually do what it is I'm writing about. I think the fact that I am in the autopsy room, I go to the crime scene and I do work in the lab gives my books this flavor that otherwise they wouldn't have.
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My dad was a labourer and my mum had exactly the same job as Noel Gallagher's mum - she was a dinner lady at our local school. Everyone comes over from Ireland and they get the same jobs.
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We celebrate the past to awaken the future.
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My thoughts will be taken up with the future or the past, with what is to come or what has been. Of the present there is necessarily no image.
