William Hogarth Quotes
I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.

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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I was in a commercial for the Disney channel. I was the camp leader for the campers.
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The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.
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I'm Cuban, so I like a bit of curve. I just want my booty to have a little lift!
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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In the past, the West had tried to export one formula of democracy which should fit to the rest of the world, and they discovered that this doesn't work.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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If there's a trait for not sleeping, I probably have it.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Upon the death of my father, our family and myself were emotionally and financially exhausted.
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I didn't want to write a biographie romancee especially since I already write novels, nor did I want to challenge the rules of the biography game, arbitrary as those rules might be.
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Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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If you break up with a girlfriend or a boyfriend, you're in this vulnerable state where you're still kind of half in the relationship with them, but you're single, and it takes a while to feel solid in yourself again.
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O little town of Bethlehem,How still we see thee lie!Above thy deep and dreamless sleepThe silent stars go by;Yet in thy dark streets shinethThe everlasting Light;The hopes and fears of all the yearsAre met in thee to-night.
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American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
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If you get thrown out, it looks bad, ... But I took the risk, and it worked out.
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Over the years, I think I've matured in my spiritual evolution and development to understand a bit more than the narrow religious thinking - to move beyond that through a sort of perfection of the grandiose nature of the universe, and how perfect it is it in its sense and how satisfied we should all be in our place in that.
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What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind.
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I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.