William Wordsworth Quotes
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My mom and dad passed away from cancer. Within nine months, I lost both of my folks. Immediately after that, I had a horrible betrayal where my brother, who worked for me, stole a lot of my money. He's in jail now.
Dane Cook
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People don't remember each tree in a park but all of us benefit from the trees. And in a way, artists are like trees in a park.
Yoko Ono
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My kids always say to me, 'Can we watch TV?' I say, 'Absolutely!' because then I can get something done. But then they say, and I wait for it, 'But can you watch with us?' My moment of freedom vanishes. So not only do I not think TV's that great and I hate sitting in front of it, but I have to with them.
Natascha McElhone
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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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I think we should all call ourselves feminists.
Hanna Rosin
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I didn't know there was a dying-professor section at the bookstore.
Randy Pausch
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Al Qaeda is on the run, partly because the United States is in Afghanistan, pushing on al Qaeda, and working internationally to cut off the flow of funds to al Qaeda. They are having a difficult time. They failed in this endeavor.
Ed Royce
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No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.
Samuel Beckett
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
Jack Vance
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In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.
Walter Becker
Steely Dan
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Sober up, and you see and hear everything you'd been able to avoid hearing before.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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A war between Europeans is a civil war.
Victor Hugo
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Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal.
Mahatma Gandhi
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The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there is nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Few Westerners know Iran as well as Robin Wright: her first trip there as a journalist was in 1973, and she has covered every important milestone since, from the Islamic revolution and the hostage crisis to the more recent staring contest with the West over Tehran's nuclear program.
Nancy Gibbs
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[Believers] are but triflers who, when they cannot explain a thing, run back to the will of God; this is, truly, a ridiculous way of expressing ignorance.
Baruch Spinoza
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I have no income coming in, my bank account is nearly empty and I can't access the money that I have. My credit cards are maxed out and I need help. I hate to do this, but I don't have a choice.
J. M. Roberts
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That inward eye/ Which is the bliss of solitude.
William Wordsworth
