William Johnson Cory Quotes
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We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.
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I listen to crazy, robust rock music where they sing their faces off, and soul music, which can be similar.
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I love C-3PO; I love the girl from 'Ex Machina' - these kind of robots that have so much soul that you feel for them.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.
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I just want to continue to pursue dancing. I want to focus on making it out there and showing everybody my heart and soul through dance... and do it until I can't walk anymore.
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When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.
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Those things that nature denied to human sight, she revealed to the eyes of the soul.
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'Honor in the Dust' is less about the freedom of the Philippines than the soul of the United States.
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I have to forget in order to find peace in my soul and be able to forgive.
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If I had the day off and knew everyone else was voting, I wouldn't miss it. It would become a routine part of my responsibility as a citizen - like paying taxes, only less soul crushing.
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The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.
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To speak of oneself means to lay bare one's own soul, expose it like a body to the sun. To lay bare one's own soul is not at all like taking off one's brassiere on a crowded beach!
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Your soul either feels lifted by something that you read, or it feels squashed by it.
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An ant on the move does more than a dozing ox.
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The only justice is to follow the sincere intuition of the soul, angry or gentle. Anger is just, and pity is just, but judgement is never just.
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Even papists could not see that a moral evil was detained in the soul through its physical connection with the body; and that it required the dissolution of this physical connection before the moral contagion could be removed.
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Promise, large promise, is the soul of an advertisement.
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I wasn't raised in a household where it was considered abnormal to be gay. So for me to meet people who use the word 'f-ggot' as an insult, with a derogatory meaning, I can't take it.
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As an old-time New Yorker, it's not that I miss the '70s and '80s or whatever. I miss the fact that there was a certain kind of energy that exists when people can live for nothing.
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Freedom isn't to do what you want at somebody else's expense.
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I'm very interested in the materiality of language. I wonder if, perhaps, this comes from my background in the visual arts. I was a potter for a number of years and earned a BFA in art before going to graduate school for creative writing.
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Somewhere there must one Made for this soul, to move it.
