W. H. Auden Quotes
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I don't have proper places to run.
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I was an English major at the University of Minnesota, and I was very shy, which many people misinterpreted as intelligence. On the basis of that wrong impression, I became the editor of the campus literary magazine.
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A person needs at intervals to separate himself from family and companions and go to new places. He must go without his familiars in order to be open to influences, to change.
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Acting is about going into the space, and there are just some places that I'm not willing to go.
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I'm not shy. I'm modest, but I'm very outgoing.
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I'm terribly, horribly shy.
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I've fixed the toilet. And I've been crawling in claustrophobic places... you have to deal with that when you become a homeowner.
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If we are going to use places of worship as polling places, we should not discriminate.
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There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
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I'm shy. I can go on a trip for days and not go because I won't sit on a toilet seat on a plane. I'm certainly not going to go on somebody's lawn. Could you imagine, in a cocktail dress?
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.
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I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
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As a musician I'm kind of nomadic, Waldo-like. I show up in different places, and I'm witness to unbelievable things.
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I don't why I was bullied. I was quite shy and skinny. Very nerdy, very bookwormish. I think I was just a target.
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I've never been a shy person. I've always been able to talk pretty well.
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I'm shy, but I'm not clinically shy. I don't have social anxiety disorder or anything like that. I more have a gentle shyness. Like, I have a little trouble mingling at parties.
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Who needs MGM? Who needs any of these places?
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In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them.
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My family, frankly, they weren't folks who went to church every week. My mother was one of the most spiritual people I knew but she didn't raise me in the church, so I came to my Christian faith later in life and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead.
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Politicians usually get the blame for dragging their feet on environmental issues. And fair enough. Most of them do just that. But the blame isn't theirs alone. For politicians afraid of losing votes, a bristling media waiting to transform good green ideas into monsters is a colossal disincentive.
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Heaven and Earth last for ever. Why do Heaven and Earth last for ever? They are unborn, so ever living. The sage stays behind, thus he is ahead. He is detached, thus at one with all. Through selfless action, he attains fulfillment.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
