Philip Larkin Quotes
Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The willingness and ability to live fully in the now eludes many people. While eating your appetizer, don't be concerned with dessert.
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I'm always forming bands.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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Probably I understand very much the people who rise against injustice.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I love coming to London and seeing what people on the street are wearing.
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Intelligent analysis of the composer's intention and strict adherence to it automatically ensures sincerity.
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I saw that nothing was permanent. You don't want to possess anything that is dear to you because you might lose it.
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I just always want to play people. I don't want it to be necessarily that you relate to the character as female or male, but that you relate to them as a person. That's the driving force.
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Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.
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If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the lack of sleep.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Restarting a musical isn't free.
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Life, in my view, is simple, tragic, and frighteningly beautiful.
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Man hands on misery to man. It deepens like a coastal shelf. Get out as early as you can, and don't have any kids yourself.
