William Wordsworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.
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I don't have to really be in the 60s. Every time I hail a cab in New York, and they pass me by and pick up the white person, then I get a dose of it. Or when they don't want to take you to Harlem. I grew up with that.
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I don't think my mother and father ever had any doubts about what I was to be punished for or not. My parents come from a very strictly defined culture.
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Liberals are always proposing perfectly insane ideas, laws that will make everybody happy, laws that will make everything right, make us live forever, and all be rich. Conservatives are never that stupid.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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My son, Wolfgang, plays drums, guitars and bass.
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I reach my readers regardless of what the critics have written.
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I think a lot of guys who are on the Internet a lot, they're kind of anesthetized to some of the violent language and all that because they see it all the time.
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I knew Jimmy Dean. He tested for 'Battle Cry'. Paul Newman tested for 'Battle Cry'. I did nine tests to finally get that role.
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A Tea Party tidal wave is coming.
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My mother loved fashion and always had a great aesthetic. But she also considered the cost of it, with the kids, that it wasn't something to allow herself.
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You can't take yourself too seriously; it's important to poke fun at yourself. Once in a while, it is great to show your inadequacies, too.
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I've learned never say never.
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The man who is intent on making the most of his opportunities is too busy to bother about luck.
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I want to read a lot of comic books. I want to watch movies. I want to rest.
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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Everything that has a beginning comes to an end.
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I'm not in a position to go back into public service.
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Love is everywhere, but if our eyes aren't open to see it, we miss out. Who among us hasn't missed out on love because we were looking for it in one package and it came in another? Our problem is rarely a lack of love so much as a mental block to our awareness of its presence.*
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I don't believe in hostile moves. I don't believe they carry any value.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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What is the Tao Te Ching? Five hundred years before the birth of Jesus, a God-realized being named Lao-tzu in ancient China dictated 81 verses which are regarded by many as the ultimate commentary on the nature of existence.
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And we hope that when they hear it, you know, it'll make people get out of their cars and just go live life to the fullest!
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As high as we have mounted in delight, In our dejection do we sink as low.
