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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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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My children are grown now, they are more independent.
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A man may well be condemned, not for doing something, but for doing nothing.
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It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.
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I like to encourage young talented writers to try and help them get published and so forth, but that's all. That's the best I can do.
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Right, those relationships with your parents and family are the hardest to figure out, and the same patterns get carried into a band situation.
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Look at the fate of summer flowers, which blow at daybreak, droop ere even-song.
