W. H. Auden Quotes
A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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Growing up as a kid my father was British and a soccer player. His idol was a guy that passed the ball a lot, Stanley Matthews. Our family thought if you could be unselfish your teammates would always like you.
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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I don't know how people recognize me.
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One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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Allah will help him who moves in the way of Allah.
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I'm just willing to try different things. But you gotta keep it all making sense.
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How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?
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I feel very strongly that 'curves' are natural, womanly and real.
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At the end of October 4 in 1957, when I was coming back from sea duty in the South Pacific, Sputnik went up. I realized that humans would be right behind robot aircraft or spacecraft even though I really had no plans of being in aviation or a professional aviator and certainly not in the military.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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I really believe in the idea of the future.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.
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Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.
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To me, the main and most exciting thing about photography is to meet people. The picture is the result of what happened between me and them on the set.
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I'm a huge fan of the Clintons. I love Hillary; I love Bill.
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Have you noticed how many people who walk in the shade curse the Sun?
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Don't take our word for it. Read the Bible itself. Read the statements of preachers. And you will understand that God is the most desperate character, the worst villain in all fiction.
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after one of his dogs urinated in the bedroom Who pissed!!? Who pissed on my fucking carpet!?! That bastard fucking dog man. I'm going to throw you in the pool! Get the fuck out of my house! Why do they do it Sharon? Whats the deal man? It's a fucking terrorist man! It's fucking part of Bin Laden's gang! Fucking Ali Baba used to go work on this rug.
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I'm trying to get into the best shape of my life for 40.
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A man has his distinctive personal scent which his wife, his children and his dog can recognize. A crowd has a generalized stink. The public is odorless.
