William Wordsworth Quotes
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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A book is never a masterpiece: it becomes one. Genius is the talent of a dead man.
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All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the best in the world because these institutions compete with each other for your tuition dollar. Let's just bring competition to public education.
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I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.
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I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.
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What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.
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But a writer's contribution is literary and a film is not literary. When you take that stuff off the page, and cast the people who are going to fit into those roles, that's what being a director is.
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Because I'm a designer, I'm quite good when I shop. I know what I'm looking for.
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It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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Boyfriends? Psh, like I've got time for that!
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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I'm not interested in being Franchise Boy.
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I was in prison with the assassins of the former president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, who was killed in 1981. Those who weren't executed in that case were given life sentences, and two of those were with me in prison.
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Due process gives teachers the latitude to use their professional judgment in their classrooms, to advocate for their students, and to not fear retribution for speaking the truth or teaching controversial subjects like evolution. As political winds shift in school districts, due process also wards off patronage or nepotism.
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My mother would give my brothers and me a pile of catalogues and let us pick what we wanted for Christmas.
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Writing a book, you can only get stopped by yourself.
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Our true nationality is mankind.
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As leaves move in the wind, your mind moves with your breath.
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When you have less revenue coming in the door, you have more money going out the door. You have to find ways of trimming.
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Cecil Forrester was heir to many misfortunes, being handsome, rich, high-born, and clever.
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There's a saying in Africa: 'To find out you are pregnant is to have one foot in the grave.'
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I want it to be that transgender is normal. Let us live our lives. Let us be happy. The world will be a better place when we have that freedom. I think I'm going to be alive to see it.
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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
