Philip Larkin Quotes
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I am in agreement with income-tax protesters that the tax, as commonly applied, is unconstitutional, unfair, and immoral.
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Bollywood music is definitely a big part of Indian music and can be a great way to introduce people to the sound. But I hope to continue to incorporate other types of Indian music into my work.
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Once you don't vote your ideals... that has serious undermining affects. It erodes the moral basis of our democracy.
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I don't listen to music, actually. Obviously I go to clubs; I stand in elevators; a lot of my friends are musicians; I hear music all the time. But I don't have my own collection of music.
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Address these environmental issues and you will address every issue known to man. And we keep dabbling in things that aren't really that important in the long term.
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I have to admit that I only read 'War and Peace' when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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I love moments in film where there's no dialogue, and somebody communicates something with a look that kills you. That's why I love going to the cinema.
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Don't take yourself too seriously! You only live once!
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Artists talk in 'art speak.'
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I'm still like a butterfly going from one job to another job. But it's quite lovely - I hope to keep this freedom, to have fun.
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Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
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I like to play people who are deeply flawed, and I want to find the good nature in them. I even try to be kind to myself when I've made big mistakes.
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Humbled by the fact that never in a million years would I ever thought that I would be on the same stage with all these great Hall of Famers and enshrined to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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When you love competition, you don't want the market to consolidate.
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Do yourself what you wish others to do.
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The true poem rests between the words.
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It never has happened, and it never will happen, and that is why it is told.
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L'histoire est un roman dont le peuple est l'auteur.
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'I am the King.' Ah, but which king? The monarch who had stood on these granite flagstones - scarcely worn then, eighteen hundred years ago - was probably an able and intelligent man; but he failed to conceive that the time could ever come when he would fade into an anonymity as deep as that of his humblest subjects.
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Music is another great pleasure of life. I like all sorts.
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Imprisonment hit me so hard - much harder than I had thought.
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I got the first job and kept going. Once I got a job, I very much wanted to keep getting jobs, basically. I did try to learn what I could in those first couple of decades.
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When I finish as the host of 'Jeopardy!' I'm going to go up to Taft in central California. They have a small college there that teaches you about oil drilling.
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- to start at a new place is always to feel incompetent & unwanted.
