William Wordsworth Quotes
She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!
Quotes to Explore
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
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The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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It's nice not to be too boring.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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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 think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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And the success of the union movement, historically, has always been to benefit all working men and women - not just people who belong to the union.
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With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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An allegory is not meant to be taken literally. There is a great lack of comprehension on the part of some readers.
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I'm not a huge soccer fan, but I follow the sport. I played in high school, a little bit in college, played on various club teams most of my life, and all three of my sons are competitive soccer players and far better than I ever was.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I don't really have any gimmicks. I don't actually do anything that's strange. I don't even wear weird things.
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If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be plastic.
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The world is starving for a new spiritual truth - a truth that works in sustaining life, not a truth that brings an end to life.
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They say 15 million people are watching the show, but what does that mean, you know? It's not until I'm accosted on the street that I understand!
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When it comes to acid rain or oil spills or depleted fisheries or tainted groundwater or fluorocarbon propellants or radiation leaks or sexually transmitted diseases, national frontiers are simple irrelevant. Toxins don't stop for customs inspections and microbes don't carry passports. North America became a water and free-trade zone long before NAFTA loosened up the market in goods.
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She lived unknown, and few could know When Lucy ceased to be; But she is in her grave, and oh The difference to me!
