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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One thing I look forward to is seeing new places and new people.
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My family background was deeply Christian.
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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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My feminism is humanism, with the weakest being those who I represent, and that includes many beings and life forms, including some men.
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We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.
