William Wordsworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.
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My father had a flourishing business as a publisher in North India.
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In Kenya, I met wonderful girls; girls who wanted to help their communities. I was with them in their school, listening to their dreams. They still have hope. They want to be doctor and teachers and engineers.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
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My favorite car is a '69 Barracuda.
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New York for a long time was a kind of conductor's graveyard.
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For an introvert his environment is himself and can never be subject to startling or unforeseen change.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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If I were to explore music, I'd want to just focus on that and make that my priority.
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Take the great example of the four-minute mile. One guy breaks it, then all of a sudden everyone breaks it. And they break it in such a short period of time that it can't be because they were training harder. It's purely that it was a psychological barrier, and someone had to show them that they could do it.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Listen, I'm not a rich kid. I'm a cultured kid; I'm very rich in culture.
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I'm fascinated by the people I grew up with and the mistakes I made - and God, I have screwed up. I like writing about where it all went off course.
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Uncertainty doesn't make life worth living, quite, but it does make striving and gambling worth attempting.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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If a reviewer is beating me up, I just say, 'Oh well, my writing is not to his or her taste.' And that's as far as it goes. Because I will simultaneously read a review where somebody says, 'Oh my God, I had so much fun reading this book and I learned so much.'
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Have you ever noticed how quiet you get when you go in the woods? It's almost like you know that God's there.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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I would agree to some extent that on the Champions Tour that there is a greater premium on putting than the regular tour because of the course setups.
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Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other.
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Death is the quiet haven of us all.
