William Coperthwaite Quotes
I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.
Quotes to Explore
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This was just one of many times God has spared me.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Spend time reflecting on your emotional and physical existence and how that applies to the voice. You have to apply that wisdom and experience when you sing - it's what comes through.
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My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.
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By the time I was ten, everyone knew I wanted to be a producer. I was a very precocious little boy.
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At the end of the day I want to be the guy who experienced music in all type of ways, with hip-hop being the roots of it.
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We believe that visa quotas should be lifted and people should visit anywhere they wish freely.
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With this sense of the splendour of our experience and of its awful brevity, gathering all we are into one desperate effort to see and touch, we shall hardly have time to make theories about the things we see and touch.
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I've triumphed over addiction.
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Will I support our president, whoever that might be? Absolutely. Did I vote for Donald Trump? Absolutely.
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It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
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What do I love about acting? I love traveling, meeting new people, exploring and just doing what I love.
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I thank Him every chance I get - on my knees praying.
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He'd never seen Seinfeld, so he didn't know who Puddy was or anything.
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I can clearly trace my passion for reading back to the Jonesboro, Georgia, library, where, for the first time in my life, I had access to what seemed like an unlimited supply of books.
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Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
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With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.
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Ah me, why did they build my house by the road to the market town?
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That's the beauty of creativity. It comes from the ether. I like to think, sometimes, it's like I haven't written it, it's more like I just reached up and grabbed it from somewhere. That song, 'Song of the Red Rock Mountain,' is one of them. I recorded it and thought, 'Where did that come from?'
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Again, it does seem like frustration is mounting in interesting ways, but I'm not sure there will be some dramatic tipping point. Then again, looking back on the history of television, you never know. People had to fight and articulate the politics and the rationale for different funding mechanisms. That was a long and drawn-out battle fought in different countries; it's not like BBC and the CBC in Canada just magically appeared out of the ether. People had to organize for it. I'm always willing to be surprised.
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There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir; there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.
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Contemporary audiences are interested in watching characters navigate ethical challenges and moral dilemmas.
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Me and apparently a lot of other people felt that the people who should benefit most from the country are the people who contribute the most, which is the middle class, who are drafted into the army, spend three years there and 25 years in the reserves. That is why I had enough votes to create out of nowhere the second-largest party in the country.
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I want to live in a society where people are intoxicated with the joy of making things.
