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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You need to listen to the people experiencing the problems, and their ideas need to crowd out the words of the 'can't be done-ers.'
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It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are to come after them, and under unforeseen contingencies.
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I began the study of medicine, impelled by a desire for knowledge of facts and of man. The resolution to do disciplined work tied me to both laboratory and clinic for a long time to come.
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We have been deformed by educational and religious institutions that treat us as members of an audience instead of actors in a drama, so we become adults who treat democracy as a spectator sport.
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Charisma is the radiance produced by the interaction of male and female elements in a gifted personality. The charismatic woman has a masculine force and severity. The charismatic man has an entrancing female beauty. Both are hot and cold, glowing with presexual self-love.
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The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.
