W. H. Auden Quotes
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Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.
Ibrahim Babangida
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The future doesn't matter if I don't enjoy what's going on right now.
Cam Gigandet
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I don't think you should always stay calm in a tense situation, because you might not ever confront the problem. Maybe it's better to actually let yourself be tense - and find a solution.
Yoko Ono
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I've always wanted to be in journalism. I even started a course at Loughborough doing media studies. I like all sports, and I am keen on writing. But I thought that while I was still young, I ought to make a real go of it at badminton. So I have put all my focus on playing sport instead of writing about it.
Rajiv Ouseph
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
Omar Sharif
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I always saw myself as a large stockholder trying to make a difference. I wasn't raiding anybody.
T. Boone Pickens
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Whenever you show up on a set where you haven't been from the beginning - at least myself - I'm kind of quiet. I just watch the politics and how everything unfolds.
Walton Goggins
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I'm not much of a jokester.
Adam Baldwin
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The foundation of family - that's where it all begins for me.
Faith Hill
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Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.
Victor Hugo
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
Jackson Pollock
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A guitar riff played on a piano doesn't come close to the purity of it being played on a guitar but I faked it enough to get by.
Barry Mann
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
Samuel Daniel
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I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.
N. Scott Momaday
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
Edie Falco
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
Karl A. Menninger
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Any time there's a scandal, we always try and get involved.
Larry Flynt
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Going out and looking for managers is like going out and looking for rattlesnakes.
Walter Becker Steely Dan
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As designers, we have a great responsibility.
Dieter Rams
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The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.
Saint Basil
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I leave everything to the young men. You've got to give youthful men authority and responsibility if you're going to build up an organization. Otherwise you'll always be the boss yourself and you won't leave anything behind you.
Amadeo Giannini
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I don't know what is in store for the movie business any better than anybody else does, but it does seem like my kind of movies are a little trickier than it used to be - or maybe a lot trickier.
Wes Anderson
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I could well believe that it is God's intention, since we have refused milder remedies, to compel [Christians] into unity, by persecution even. Satan is without doubt nothing else than a hammer in the hand of a benevolent and severe God.
C. S. Lewis
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The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.
W. H. Auden