Abraham Cowley Quotes
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The monarchy that I hand over to my son is not going to be the same one that I have inherited.
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The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
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Instead of assuming that emotional intelligence is always useful, we need to think more carefully about where and when it matters.
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When you choose your friends, don't be short-changed by choosing personality over character.
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The best monsters are our anxieties given form. They make sense on the level of a dream - or a nightmare.
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Who would think it possible to redirect historical scholarship by explaining what Thomas Jefferson said in the Declaration of Independence?
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I don't need anyone to look after me financially and, while it's hard to trust that a man loves you for the right reasons, you have to take a leap of faith.
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Songs for me are like a message in a bottle. You send them out to the world, and maybe the person who you feel that way about will hear about it someday.
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I think a culture can really be elevated through the arts, and it's always a dream come true when I come across roles that enable me to fuse my love of storytelling with my passion for activism and raising social awareness.
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When we are no longer able to change a situation - we are challenged to change ourselves.
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The mission that unites all of the programs of the Teach For All global network is that of cultivating the leadership capacity critical to ultimately ensuring educational opportunity for all.
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Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.
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I don't adjust my training for any of my opponents. I don't watch films on my opponents.
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Dreams will get you nowhere, a good kick in the pants will take you a long way.
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That's one of the things I resent the most violently. To have to take your own life and give it away to the public, in pieces.
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I'm a Gemini, so I change my mind every day.
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I had a novel in the back of my mind when I won an Ian St James story competition in 1993. At the award ceremony an agent asked me if I was writing a novel. I showed her four or five chapters of what would become 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' and to my surprise she auctioned them off.
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In the end, I want to spend my 60s writing bonkbusters like Jilly Cooper.
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Due to the injuries that I will have for the rest of my life, it is physically impossible for me to consider any career in wrestling.
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I'm like this mercenary actor going from show to show - people love to hire me, but then don't want me around much.
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Close to a billion people - one-eighth of the world's population - still live in hunger. Each year 2 million children die through malnutrition. This is happening at a time when doctors in Britain are warning of the spread of obesity. We are eating too much while others starve.
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I was born imagining myself with an apron on, with pies cooling on the window sill and babies crying upstairs. I thought that all that stuff would somehow anchor me to the planet, that it was the weight I needed to keep from just flying off into space.
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No experience exists unless it's a shared one.
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We griev'd, we sigh'd, we wept; we never blush'd before.
