Philip Larkin Quotes

Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

Philip Larkin

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• If you're an actress or a musician, everyone thinks you're hot.

  

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• I want the kind of career where I can move back and forth.

  

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• When we put an end to nuclear tests, we get closer to eliminating all nuclear weapons.

  

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• I may be helping to bring harmony between people through my music.

  

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• The cartoon is a metaphor really for the fact that it's almost impossible in our celebrity obsessed culture to move around genres and sort of change you ideas, change your face, you know?

  

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• Mankind must be positively and constructively wary of mankind, of their fellow man, of their families, of the members of their faith community, of their fellow-citizens.

  

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• Because our fight has been for such a long time we are isolated from the world, even after reconstruction we don't have much attention from people outside.

  

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• My mom, she's a great cook. You know, pirogue, borscht. I love borscht, and I love Pilemeni, meat dumplings.

  

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• I still don't know why, exactly, but I do think people can have a spiritual connection to landscape, and I certainly did in Iceland.

  

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• Avoid all needle drugs, the only dope worth shooting is Richard Nixon.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
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• I see ghosts.

  

  Natalie Massenet
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• I no longer care about the financial system. I gave them my roadmap. OK? Thanks, bye. I've no idea what's going on. I'm disconnected. I'm totally disengaged.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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• We are Indians, firstly and lastly.

  

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• My mother gave me a real kick toward cooking, which was that if I wanted to eat, I'd better know how to do it myself.

  

  Daniel Craig
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• I allowed Rick Santorum to express views and ideas that the American people never would have had expressed.

  

  Foster Friess
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• What you want if you're asking that question is a specific time in your life to come back to you, and that will never happen. You will never be 15 years old again. I could write, verbatim, another Take This To Your Grave, and you won't feel the same way. It's not going to mean anything to you because it wouldn't mean anything to me.

  

  Patrick Stump Fall Out Boy
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• You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own.

  

  Jane Austen
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• Draft day is a hectic day, especially for draftees and, more or less, for management.

  

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• He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless.

  

  Aristotle
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• And then afterwards I worked in advertising for a year which taught me about writing even when you don't want to (laughter) because there's never a moment that you want to write about an Erickson cell phone but you have to. And that's really important you know obviously for the...like if you really want to write, you have to write every day no matter how you feel or you know. And then, yeah, and then I ended up working in TV and then from TV into movies and then directing, so.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
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• If you can do only a little. Do what you can. What you cannot enforce, do not command.

  

  Socrates
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• In the real world, answers may not be clear cut. There will be messy choices, and you're not going to be able to construct a policy response in a neat and tidy way. Being able to listen to other people, even as you stay true to your principles, that's how you actually succeed.

  

  Jake Sullivan
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• Despite our ever-connective technology, neither Skype nor Facebook - not even a telephone call - can come close to the joy of being with loved ones in person.

  

  Marlo Thomas
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• Deprivation is for me what daffodils were for Wordsworth.

  

  Philip Larkin