W. H. Auden Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida -
The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
Cam Gigandet -
I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono -
I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph -
I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
T. Boone Pickens -
Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
Walton Goggins
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I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin -
The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
Faith Hill -
Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo -
I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock -
A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
Barry Mann -
And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday -
Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco -
Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger -
Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan -
The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.
Victor Hugo -
Never try to impress a woman, because if you do she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.
W. C. Fields
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In science, read by preference the newest works. In literature, read the oldest. The classics are always modern.
Amy Lowell -
Approaching any movie with a three in the title you know you are not going to get a political polemic. You are not going to get some sort of political statement or ultra-deep message.
J. J. Abrams -
I really enjoy what I'm doing. I think you have to have a good time and not look too far back or too far ahead.
Dakota Fanning -
'Rescue Me' is the first book in a three-book series. Although, like all my series, the books are purposely written so that readers do not have to read them in order.
Rachel Gibson -
The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.
Mark Steyn -
The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden