Charles Cowden Clarke Quotes
No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
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I think we know how to do Mars.
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I'm always drawn to stories about characters who are somewhat isolated inside themselves by their inability to communicate in some way. That's what interested me about 'Children of a Lesser God.'
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One thing you can't intend is how you will be read. I hear it said a lot that my books are about the 'search for identity', and this is said admiringly, as if I meant to encourage such a search.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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Music is pretty intimate stuff and I can only work with very few people: Gonzalez being one, Mocky being another and, on a completely different level, Broken Social Scene. With Broken Social Scene it's not one-on-one, it's a one-on-12. It's very healthy, very comfortable, like a big pot luck supper among old friends.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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I love to go to casinos with my wife. I play poker, and she's an old-fashioned slot queen. She even has a visor.
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Every man I meet wants to protect me. I can't figure out what from.
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In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.
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Debt is a mistake between lender and borrower, and both should suffer.
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There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
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If out of reading this book you get just one thing-an increased tendency to think always in terms of other people’s point of view, and see things from their angle-if you get that one thing out of this book, it may easily prove to be one of the building blocks of your career.
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The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them.
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All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.
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Adam named the living animals, MaddAddam names the dead ones.
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It's not important to me to make other people at ease. I am difficult, but that's 'cause I don’t really give a fuck.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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I love to draw and paint - that's what makes me happy.
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I believe the last thing I read at night will likely manifest when I'm sleeping. You become what you think about the most.
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The history of Europe over the last several centuries provides clear evidence of the transformative power of commerce.
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It can be considered a rule that the probable duration of an Empire may be prognosticated by the degree to which its rulers believe in their own propaganda.
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Facebook and Myspace are the U.S. audience, which is tried and true when it comes to being susceptible to ads.
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No! no arresting the vast wheel of time, That round and round still turns with onward might, Stern, dragging thousands to the dreaded night Of an unknown hereafter.
