William Hogarth Quotes
I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
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A person who knows but a little will put on an air of knowledge. This is a matter of inexperience. When someone knows something well, it will not be seen in his manner.
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A Negro woman has the same kind of problems as other women, but she can't take the same things for granted.
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I've said no to shows that have been on the air for six years because they weren't what I wanted to do.
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Repentance means a change of mind. Formerly, I thought sin as a pleasant thing, but now I have changed my mind about it. Formerly, I thought the world an attractive place, but now I know better. Formerly I regarded it miserable business to be a Christian, but now I think differently. Once I thought certain things delightful, now I think them vile. Once I thought other things utterly worthless, now I think them most precious. That is a change of mind, and that is repentance.
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Every day I left that place I felt a little bit dirty about it.
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I think it is owing to the good sense of the English that they have not painted better.
