Philip Larkin Quotes
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I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.
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I think we have a real obligation when we do have animals in captivity to understand their needs and to care for them as well as we can.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I have never been asked to be in a movie musical. Other than 'Yentl,' which I didn't sing in.
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I made some good pictures, and I made some bad ones. I wasn't trying to build an image, though; I was trying to build a life for myself.
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The problem of telling contemporary history is that your message gets outdated.
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The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.
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For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.
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There is a great difference between Christianity and religion at the south. If a man goes to the communion table, and pays money into the treasury of the church, no matter if it be the price of blood, he is called religious.
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AIDS is a plague - numerically, statistically and by any definition known to modern public health - though no one in authority has the guts to call it one.
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I am a person who is trained to look other people in the eye.
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I could enjoy the life that I had by virtue of the educational attainment that my grandparents and parents had pursued. Education was always incredibly valued in our family.
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Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses.
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Passion is in all great searches and is necessary to all creative endeavors.
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When I was growing up, it was a lot of punk and hardcore music going on in legion halls and firehouses, and we'd play those shows, and it was very Jersey. It was very suburban, and there's just a great pride there.
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People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
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If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.
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I think we've debunked the myth of talent. It doesn't appear that there's anything like a music gene or center in the brain that Stevie Wonder has that nobody else has.
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I shall despair. There is no creature loves me; And if I die no soul will pity me: And wherefore should they, since that I myself Find in myself no pity to myself?
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I believe in sexual monogamy, but I don't believe in emotional monogamy.
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These days, rock 'n' roll is much more about rock than about roll. I don't do rock. But I'm interested in that roll part, because that's the funny little bit that makes it hip.
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I am a plumber. Just a plumber.
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You can't put off being young until you retire.
