W. H. Auden Quotes
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
Quotes to Explore
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Doing voice-over work is something that I love to do, and it is a lot of fun at the same time.
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In combat sports, personalities are what draw.
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Ordinary people who have lots of good ideas want more than a suggestion box, and they need a union to represent that thinking.
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Seed investing is the status symbol of Silicon Valley. Most people don't want Ferraris, they want a winning seed investment.
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I come from a poor family, I have seen poverty. The poor need respect, and it begins with cleanliness.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.
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I played a nerdy guy on 'CSI: NY' for nine years. I want to be bad for a while. I want to be really, really bad.
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I knew what normalcy was, and I wasn't having it.
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I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.
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Before I came to New York, I only had a few pictures of the city in my mind. And you know 'That Girl?' Marlo Thomas jumping with her hat? I always loved that, and I wondered what that double street she crosses is. And it's Park Avenue! And that's what I can see out my window.
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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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Male athletes don't get dropped when they father kids.
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Anything that we do to make ourselves feel worthy and safe is a flight from the pain of powerlessness. Every pursuit of external power - every attempt to change the world or a person in order to make yourself feel valuable and safe - is a distraction from the pain of powerlessness.
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Certainly I was relatively a refined person. No way a tramp.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I want money; I just don't want that money lying around.
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I love to perform live.
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Love is boundary-less.
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The 2008 presidential election was a triumph of hope and unity over fear and divisiveness. Barack Obama's election reshapes America's political landscape and wipes away the false geography of 'red states' and 'blue states.'
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I have a J.D., but I'm not a practicing attorney as far as entertainment law goes.
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Most musicals are real crowd pleasers.
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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
