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.
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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The names of common flowers change from decade to decade, so I spent a lot of time with old outdated dictionaries, with awful flower names like 'mouse-eared chickweed.'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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Had I wanted, I could have set up my own company, secured funding, and made money. That proposition, however, does not excite me, since it would be a very self-centric goal.
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Never wear anything that panics the cat.
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Nor is it the irrationality of the form which is taken as characteristic. On the contrary, one overlooks the irrational.
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I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now.
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Sanctions on Pakistan have been part of the troubled U.S.-Pakistan relationship in the past and should not be considered as an option in 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.
