W. H. Auden Quotes
Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
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When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.
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I was lucky enough to go home and raise our babies.
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I'm not in the K-1 tournament. We thought about it but they really don't want me as they feel I might get hurt so that's fine with me but I do see a lot of guys out there that I feel I can take.
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Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.
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For someone with a background of economic justice, what scared me about climate change is not just that the sea level will rise and we'll have more storms - it's how this intersects with that cocktail of inequality and racism.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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I always wanted to be an actress. And it wasn't ego. I felt so little about myself, considered myself such a sparrow. Not just my size. I thought I was so plain... I did plays not to show off but because if I did that - I didn't realize it at the time - I would be somebody other than this person I didn't really approve of.
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I think the Catholic faith is consistent with the kind of conservatism I believe in.
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I'm starting to find my own style.
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Today, for the first time - and the Obama campaign showed us this - we can go from the digital world, from the self-organizing power of networks, to the physical one.
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I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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There's more to life than physical and material.
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There are a lot of dynamics and a lot of politics that go into records and getting played on the radio.
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I think Teach for America has suffered from the fact that I did not teach, in a major way. I also think if I had taught, I wouldn't have started Teach for America.
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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.
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It's interesting – in 'Fail Safe,' as well, they didn't back off. We were raised with kind of this spectrum of that Armageddon and lived under it, so those were probably the films. 'Fail Safe' sort of haunted me.
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One must do the same subject over again ten times, a hundred times. In art nothing must resemble an accident, not even movement.
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I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.
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I'm not done yet making people miserable. If they're going to make me miserable, then I'm going to make them miserable.
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You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.
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When improvisation is properly applied, it is compositional thinking, sped way up.
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Acts of injustice done Between the setting and the rising sun In history lie like bones, each one.
