W. H. Auden Quotes
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I wonder if there'll ever be a time where you're not judged by your appearance. It seems that wherever you've got to, your appearance is always discussed. It's never said about men. We talk about a man's charisma, not his looks.
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A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.
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If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
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Evil is always devising more corrosive misery through man's restless need to exact revenge out of his hate.
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Your man Flavor Flav is living!
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I don't believe in alcohol. It's a sort of a medicinal necessity for the human condition, none of that stuff. I'm not a gambling man.
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Necessity makes an honest man a knave.
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We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?
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Custard puddings, sauces and fillings accompany the seven ages of man in sickness and in health.
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No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.
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I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.
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The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
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What we prefer to do is operate our investment bank in a way that is like what investment banks used to be, which is a middle man - someone who is here to match people who need capital with people who have capital - and not position ourselves at the center of that by taking big positions on a trading stance.
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A typical smart phone has more computing power than Apollo 11 when it landed a man on the moon.
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Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.
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I've always viewed myself as a brand. When I started 10 years ago, that was very controversial. 'Marketing' and 'PR' were dirty words for the literary world, but that has changed. Once the book is finished, I want as many people as possible to read it.
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I have never made a threat. I've never made a threat, never expressed a threat, never - I've never - I would never threaten violence ever, because I am a man of peace, dedicated to peace.
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Drown in a cold vat of whiskey? Death, where is thy sting?
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I was a good soldier in the British Army. I was born in a very, very poor family. And I enlisted to escape hunger. But my officers were Scottish and they loved me. The Scots are good, you know.
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If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.
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If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.
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It's not that I'm racist or anything, because I'm not, but I just don't think we should be wasting our time helping people that are going to die soon anyway.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
