William Wordsworth Quotes
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I have no political ax to grind; I just find it absurd that huge billion-dollar corporations can take over elections. I just find it insane that, for instance, we give tax breaks to people like myself making millions of dollars, while there're no tax breaks for working people. That, to me, is not a political issue, that's a life issue.
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You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
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When people refer to 'Back in the Day,' it was a Wednesday. Just a little fun fact for you.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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I busted my butt all my life building companies.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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Abstract anger is great for rhetorical carrying on. You can go on endlessly about the post office, but it doesn't mean you're mad at your mailman.
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It is in the U.S. interest to engage Iran in serious negotiations - on both regional security and the nuclear challenge it poses.
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Perseverance, secret of all triumphs.
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Your most precious, valued possessions and your greatest powers are invisible and intangible. No one can take them. You, and you alone, can give them. You will receive abundance for your giving.
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I don't think that genius goes hand in hand with being socially inept or being a sociopath or being a misanthrope, but I do think that it is a mind that can think so differently - so beyond how one is supposed to think.
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In my final year of college, I was interning with L'Oreal, when during one of the photo shoots, a photographer suggested I become a model. I was working under Smira Bakshi, who was this really cool chick, as she was loaded, had her fun, and was successful. I basically aspired to be her.
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I was, if you like, a successful schoolboy in that I had a degree of talent in all the required things that make you a success at school.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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I love the shape of '50s fashion: the clothes are very flattering; they let you out in the right places. I love high heels, too, as I'm only five foot three, although I always tell people I'm five foot five.
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Everything that had happened was shockingly beautiful, enough to make you crazy.
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Since coming to Harwell I have met English people of all kinds, and I have come to see in many of them a deep rooted firmness which enables them to lead a decent way of life.
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I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18-years-old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff sort of happen earlier for me, which happens to a lot of people. My 21st birthday was just a little boring. Not a great story.
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No day-to-day mishaps or indignities can really compromise your sense of self after you've survived a deep tragedy.
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The flower that smells the sweetest is shy and lowly.
