W. H. Auden Quotes
For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.
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My last series was on A.B.C., a one-hour called 'My Generation'. Critics liked it. I was on for two weeks, and that was a tough one.
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The words of truth are always paradoxical.
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Redheads were particularly persecuted during the European witch trials of the fifteenth, sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The colour was associated with the devil, and the pale skin which most redheads have was thought unnatural and deathly.
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A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.
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Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
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I sometimes just don't like to see the Ultimate Fighting. I just find it, as a martial artist, I just find it too violent.
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I mean, what is racism? Racism is a projection of our own fears onto another person. What is sexism? It's our own vulnerability about our potency and masculinity projected as our need to subjugate another person, you know? Fascism, the same thing: People are trying to untidy our state, so I legislate as a way of controlling my environment.
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I'm an actor who they said was wrinkled and balding and everything else when I was in my early 30's. Most of the people who wrote that who thought they were younger than me are now bald and wrinkled.
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To learn something new every day is still exciting!
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Being in love is the best thing in my life.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.
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I can't predict the future and I don't have respect for people who try to.
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It is always challenging bowling abroad - you don't get much spin, bounce. You do get bounce, but you don't get sideways spin. It is always drifting kind of spin you get.
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Justice while she winks at crimes, Stumbles on innocence sometimes.
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I haven't put an ounce of effort into my families. I never have.
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I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.
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Children believe that if they just want something badly enough, it will happen.
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I do not like to be called a samurai, but I admit that I have an image of myself as a fighter. I would like to fight against all authorities and powers.
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Funny thing about Americans. They are the first to adopt weird lifestyles and radical views but they are the most conservative race on earth.
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Good Christian People, I have not come here to preach a sermon; I have come here to die.
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Sometimes family was the cruelest form of love there was, for no one could hurt you more than the people who created you.
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For the error bred in the bone Of each woman and each man Craves what it cannot have, Not universal love But to be loved alone.
