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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There may be an evolutionary advantage for schizophrenia genes during famine.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.
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I certainly don't think adrenalin coursing through your veins, is going to help with the fine motor skills of golf.
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Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
