William Wordsworth Quotes
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I've been told I'm a little bit eccentric.
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Tell me what you'd like to hear me sing. I'll sing whatever you like, after which I'll take up a collection, if you don't mind.
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Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Our focus is on helping people develop the skills to find and keep a job. Instead of focusing on a war against poverty, we will focus on fighting for the poor among us by offering them hope and opportunity.
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A physician's physiology has much the same relation to his power of healing as a cleric's divinity has to his power of influencing conduct.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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Fiji had experienced the ordeal of two military coups.
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Comedy can be harder because if you aren't making the audience laugh, they're going to turn on you quicker. They'll go along with mediocre drama more than they'll go along with mediocre comedy.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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Given a choice between Charlie Mingus and Eric Dolphy or Joe Strummer and Lou Reed, there was no choice. I like Reed and Strummer, but it's kiddie music.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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I think I did very well against everyone who tried to defend me.
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The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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This profession has fed me creatively and allowed me to have a home life and a private life.
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I want to be relatable. I want people to know who I am, but that doesn't mean you get to know everything about me and my life. I think that there's a fine line.
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I think with motherhood and child-rearing in general, everyone's going to tell you how to do it and why. I've always said to other mothers and women when they've asked me, that you have to find your own way and find out what works for your family, at all costs.
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I come from a very la-ti-da East Coast intellectual family - or so they think.
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The people who harvest America's food must be treated with respect and earn a living wage.
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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
