W. H. Auden Quotes
Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
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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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Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
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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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That expression "positive neutrality" is a contradiction in terms. There can be no more positive neutrality than there can be a vegetarian tiger.
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I think very often the price paid for a work is the trophy itself.
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When you conduct opera, you control the stage. But with a film, the film controls you.
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Understand that thoughts are thoughts. If they are unreasonable, reason with them, even if you have no reason left. You are the observer of your mind, not its victim.
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But in the end it's still a game of golf, and if at the end of the day you can't shake hands with your opponents and still be friends, then you've missed the point.
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Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained.
