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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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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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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I was dressed like Darth Vader. Vader was my man, even with the villainy. He wore all black and had a deep voice; he reminded me of my uncle. I had a cheap mask-cape combo, the kind available at any pharmacy during October.
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When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
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People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.
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I think everybody has a secret life.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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Managing to tell a story is very gratifying.
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The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
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Far from the world I walk, and from all care.
