W. H. Auden Quotes
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It is so hard to make important decisions that we have a great urge to reduce them to rules.
Ian Hacking
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Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.
Samuel Butler
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I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
Rafael Nadal
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I was raised to want to work for a living. The idea of just sitting around or going shopping every day appalls me.
Tamara Ecclestone
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After my 10th standard, my life took me into the world of cinema, but I never severed my ties with my love for reading.
Manju Warrier
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Everything I make starts very personally.
Baz Luhrmann
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The Cuban model doesn't even work for us anymore.
Fidel Castro
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A majority in all parties do, I think, want to see local government recover its old vigour and independence.
Ferdinand Mount
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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It's, like, your classic journey from a drama school. I went straight to the three-year acting degree, and I waitressed throughout that to support myself and for the first six months after I graduated. Then I started to get commercials here and there, and then I got a couple of roles in Australia and then a more regular role on a TV series.
Yvonne Strahovski
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I think I represent a more left-wing view of what jazz is.
Pat Metheny
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We do a lot of consumer research. Consumers believe the smartphone will be the remote, meaning that it will orchestrate a lot of things. So maybe you will take your connectivity with you to the car.
Hans Vestberg
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One thing I love about being back is English rain. Looking out of the window now, it's raining, and the sky is dark; I love it. To me, those are reassuringly English things. I love it when it rains.
Kate Winslet
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Wise and humane management of the patient is the best safeguard against infection.
Florence Nightingale
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As with the subjects in all of my films, the incentive is left to the subject to determine on their own. I never ask someone why they say yes to me. After all, if you invited someone to join you for dinner, and they accepted your invitation, your next question wouldn't be, 'Why are you saying yes?'
R. J. Cutler
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Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
Jack Schwartz
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'The Reader' is about a young man's experience of falling in love with somebody who, it turns out, made some choices that were unavoidable in her life that resulted in horrific crimes against humanity.
Kate Winslet
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A lot of ideas get re-used and made part of new songs if the first version didn't cut the mustard, and the stuff that gets left off usually contained the germ of something good but failed to reach a satisfactory state by the recording stage.
Bent Sæther
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I love chocolate mousse, that's probably my favorite. I'm a big strawberry shortcake fan as well. I'm not mad at classic vanilla either. I'm not, I'm not sure what the word is. Cake discriminatory? Cakeist?
Kevin McHale
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Talk of joy: there may be things better than beef stew and baked potatoes and home-made bread - there may be.
Ray Stannard Baker
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Growing up, there are always those kids who are only happy when they are making someone else upset. That is unfortunately just how some people are. And their parents were fine. Some people are just born with bad wiring.
Patton Oswalt
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I don't know why my lines that were cut from the film didn't make it onto the DVD. I have offered to go into the editing room with Christopher and work shoulder to shoulder with him to fit all my lines in. I think he thinks I'm kidding. I'm only trying to help.
Fred Willard
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All pity is self-pity.
W. H. Auden