William Wordsworth Quotes
The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
Quotes to Explore
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Architecture must not do violence to space or its neighbors.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The balance of private good and general welfare is at the bottom of civilized morals; but the morals of the Heroic Age are founded on individuality, and on nothing else.
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I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.
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I've been to parties in L.A. that are mind-blowing. I mean, quite literally mind-blowing. People get cellphones in the party bag, that sort of thing. Fabulous, fabulous parties.
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You can't be around Oprah and not have her influence you, and I don't mean that because she's doling out the free advice. I mean it because she is someone that leads with truth and follows her heart. She's a force.
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My daughter passed away in 2003.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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Even today, I frequently meet scientists who, outside their own narrow discipline, are superstitious.
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The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
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The biggest part of my fashion choices is how comfortable it is.
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The thing about Drew Goddard and Mike Schur is that they are legit geniuses, and they love storytelling. They love creating worlds, love messing with the audience; they love doing things that we don't expect. To get to be a part of that is too good to be true.
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The principle of responsibility and collective sanctions is incompatible with the Western concept of justice.
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People never think of entertainers as being human. When you walk out on stage, the audience think, 'Nothing can go wrong with them.' We get sick and we have headaches just like they do. When we are cut, we bleed.
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Beethoven's music tends to move from chaos to order, as if order were an imperative of human existence.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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It is easy to be independent when you've got money. But to be independent when you haven't got a thing, that's the Lord's test.
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We must say that there are as many squares as there are numbers.
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Everyone's past is locked up in their recipes - the past of an individual and the past of a nation as well.
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In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained.
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The idea of trying to create things that last - forever knowledge - has guided my work for a long time now.
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The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away; than what it leaves behind.
