Abraham Cowley Quotes
An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
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I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a man saved them or they were prostitutes.
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When I go back to New York all these years later, I'll walk down Seventh Avenue, and I'll hear, 'Yo, Oz!' In New York, I get recognized for that all the time.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the troubles will come to an end, and the question which now distracts the country will be settled just as surely as all other difficulties of like character which have originated in this government have been adjusted.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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Growing up, you always want to hang with your dad - go fishing or whatever. But my dad was always working, so we never really had time for that. I think I kind of learned to accept it.
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I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.
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I'm moved by people who see the world differently than others. People who see the world with a longing for its poetry often can be broken people.
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The two sensibilities, the visual and the verbal, have always been linked for me - in fact, while reading a particularly evocative passage, I will imagine what the photograph I'd take of that scene would look like, even with burning and dodging notes. Maybe everyone does this.
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The first step to stringing the boss up from a lamppost is saying the boss is a moron.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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Dance is something which I like to do, but acting is my passion. I would like to do good and meaty roles.
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You can never be too rich or too thin.
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If it is the duty of the State to educate, it is the duty of the State also to bear the burden of education, namely, the taxation out of which education is provided.
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Over the years, Western governments have been criticized for working with foreign police who have proved abusive or corrupt.
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When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.
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One may no more live in the world without picking up the moral prejudices of the world than one will be able to go to hell without perspiring.
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Really, what are the options? Levi's or Wranglers. And you just pick one. It's one of those life choices.
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To make it in life, you and your wife need to be in the same business. That has been my problem all along. My wives didn't know what I was doing. I would come back home from the road to a stranger. That's no good.
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My husband proposed to me on the beach using candy.
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One who neglects or disregards the existence of earth, air, fire, water and vegetation disregards his own existence which is entwined with them.
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When our schedules are busy, and we are working hard on the tasks immediately at hand, it can be difficult to see that big, potential breakthrough idea right in front of us, much less act on it.
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An harmless flaming meteor shone for hair,And fell adown his shoulders with loose care.
