W. H. Auden Quotes
Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
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When I first met Elvis, we had so much in common and became fast friends.
Wayne Newton
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In the past, in the '60s and '70s, genres were much more segmented. You had action guys who were deadly serious about it, and I think you had comics that were comics.
Adam McKay
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I think shoppers are looking for newness and creativity. Look at C. Wonder, for instance. They're dancing in our stores. We don't believe in retail like retail was done in the past. We believe in disrupting the whole environment, offering them amazing value in an amazing package of fun, excitement and whimsy.
J. Christopher Burch
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I am a passionate civil libertarian.
Ted Cruz
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I've got quite a good poker face. I'm known for being able to keep my emotions very much in check: no one knows how I'm feeling. I can be winning or losing but keep it very much the same.
Rajiv Ouseph
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Privacy is big for me. To do interviews even, I have a very love/hate with it.
Zach Galifianakis
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I was with the Jessie Bonstelle Stock Company in Detroit and Buffalo for three seasons - 10 performances and a new play every week. She was an amazing woman who did a great deal for me.
Katharine Cornell
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Honor sinks where commerce long prevails.
Walter Bagehot
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Eat well and sleep well. That will feed your nervous system and your psyche. As you get older, you look how you feel.
Francesca Annis
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I don't think of reflection on dark things as necessarily dark.
C. K. Williams
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
Jack Antonoff Fun.
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Economics has paid a terrible price for its dalliances with the Keynesian and neoclassical theories.
Edmund Phelps
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Democracy is fatal for the arts; it leads only to chaos or the achievement of new and lower common denominators of quality.
Walter Legge
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It is not proper to project our feelings onto things or to attribute our own sensations and passions to them. Can it also be improper to see in them a guide, a way of life?
Octavio Paz
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There's a lot of judgement that can come from outside sometimes, and there's media scrutiny that is placed on a lot of women in the public eye, and I just couldn't care less. I really couldn't care less.
Kate Winslet
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For years I've been hearing 20-somethings say they don't expect Social Security to be around when they hit 65. Eventually, I came to realize that they really mean that they just don't expect to be 65. Or 40. Neither did I, when I was 22.
Gail Collins
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The sad fact is that it would be fair to say that United is a generic, bureaucratic, tired company. A sort of DMV in the sky. No real culture. No real strategy. No real expectations for employees or customers. All of which is a shame.
Patrick Lencioni
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Green is one of my favorite colors - emerald green.
Rachel Tucker
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I've seen my performances. I don't like them.
Don Ameche
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Spring, when the earth tilts closer to the sun, runs a strict timetable of flowers.
Alice Oswald
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In a real sense, people who have read good literature have lived more than people who cannot or will not read. It is not true that we have only one life to live; if we can read, we can live as many more lives and as many kinds of lives as we wish.
S. I. Hayakawa
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I wish I had been wiser. I wish I had been more effective, I wish I'd been more unifying, I wish I'd been more principled.
Bill Ayers
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There's a line, players usually don't cross it and coaches usually don't cross it. Every once in a while you get a little temper tantrum on both sides, I certainly have had 'em. I'm not proud of those.
Bill Parcells
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Oh, how I wish that Orwell were still alive, so that I could read his comments on contemporary events!
W. H. Auden