William Penn Quotes
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Be vigilant, for nothing one achieves lasts forever.
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Neither. I did not bring my crown, and the last thing I would want to do is get into politics.
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Sometimes, especially in the last six months, I still feel like going to the window and singing out all my troubles.
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A lot of the Beatles albums were very various, and we did it on purpose: We didn't want the next track to sound like the last one.
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Get on the floor floor like it's your last chance. If you want more, more then here I am.
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Don't you hate it when...your suitcase is the last one off the airplane?
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I've always looked at directing as the next step for me in my creative career, and after spending the better part of the last decade on a television set absorbing as much as I could from in front of the camera, I'm now eager to learn as much as I can from behind it.
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When a literary person's exhaustive work is over, the last thing he wishes to do is to talk books.
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The church is the last place we want to be sold another product, the last place we want to be entertained.
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I suspect the base that I'm working from is not particularly one of inquiry, but of memory of what I did last time.
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When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.
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My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?
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They were wrestling with canvases, using violent colors and huge brush strokes. I arrived with gray, silent, sober, oppressed paintings. One critic said they were paintings that thought.
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I'm only in competition with my last level. It don't have nothing to do with music or anything. And the last level is hard competition, the last place you were.
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If we trace the history of any nation backwards into the past, we come at last to a period of myths and traditions which eventually fade away into impenetrable darkness.
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All art is erotic. The first ornament to have been invented, the cross, was of erotic origin. It was the first work of art. A horizontal stroke: the woman lying down. A vertical stroke: the male who penetrates her.
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I'm so glad we had that storm last week.
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The last person to be beatified by Pope John Paul II was Mother Teresa of Calcutta in 2003.
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I've spent the last few years just really actively pursuing comedy and that's something I always wanted to know how to do.
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I was always fascinated with rock 'n' roll, or girls, or something like that when I was a kid.
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I said nothing for a time, just ran my fingertips along the edge of the human-shaped emptiness that had been left inside me.
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Children are happy because they don't yet have a file in their minds called "All the Things That Could Go Wrong." They don't have a mind-set that puts "Things to Fear" before "Things to Love." Unless we can be like little children, we can't enter into the kingdom of heaven; unless we can be like little children, we can't be happy. Children are happy because they don't have all the facts yet.
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Every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.
