William Wordsworth Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I absolutely welcome a full investigation into the for-profit schools because I think a majority of them are predatory.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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I will sing happy songs, and I do sing happy songs, but the stuff that's going to move me and going to make me close my eyes is always the blues.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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I am neither left wing nor right wing. I am middle-of-the-bird.
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I'm not interested in celebrity.
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By doing, you become employable. It doesn't matter what the job is; by working, you learn new things, meet new people and are exposed to new ideas.
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Voting for Romney after the train wreck of that was the eight years of W. Bush is like losing your pay check playing a rigged game of three-card monte and then playing the same game again a week later 'cause the cards are a different color.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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You can disagree without being disagreeable. That's always been my mantra.
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I've made it abundantly clear that I think that marriage is between a man and a woman.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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It was considered the most dangerous route in the Hills, but as my reputation as a rider and quick shot was well known, I was molested very little, for the toll gatherers looked on me as being a good fellow, and they knew that I never missed my mark.
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Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?
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Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
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What the poet has in mind . . . is that poetic value is an intrinsic value. It is not the value of knowledge. It is not the value of faith. It is the value of imagination. The poet tries to exemplify it, in part as I have tried to exemplify it here, by identifying it with an imaginative activity that diffuses itself throughout our lives.
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The life of faith isn't meant for tourists. It's meant for pilgrims.
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Faith is a passionate intuition.
