W. H. Auden Quotes
We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
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If you're old enough to be arrested, you're old enough to carry a gun.
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I've never had a problem finding a team, a league, or a pickup game. Actually, I'm not sure I want soccer to get bigger. We have so many teams in San Francisco that there aren't enough fields.
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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Once you're in a room like '30 Rock,' it's a creative setting, so you write more even after you go home, just because you're still in that mode of coming up with jokes. So the job wasn't sapping standup jokes, but it was sapping stand up time and energy, and I wouldn't be able to travel as much.
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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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We make music for a living. Like I've always said, if you like what you're doing, you're halfway there; if someone else likes it, that's even better. If they don't like it, at least you like it. Not to be selfish, but you kind of have to be.
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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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And I think there's something about conservatives frankly - and the Left, when it comes to their channels of persuasion, are unpersuasive. They are, most of them are hate-filled, obscenity-clogged rants of anger and hatred.
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The motivation for making movies is that people actually see them.
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When I was 18, I left Dublin and moved to Paris. I didn't speak French. I didn't know anyone. I felt like a fish out of water.
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Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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When I started acting almost 50 years ago, it wasn't about fame. It was about acting.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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After the French Revolution, it was not the treason of the king that was in question; it was the existence of the king. You have to be very careful when you judge and execute somebody for being a symbol.
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But working with Dre, I grew up with his music, so I'm still like more a fan.
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I'm a painter, really. To be successful, you have to go to Hollywood, and I didn't like to travel.
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I don't like it when you look too styled and wear one designer from head to toe.
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No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. 'In all our afflictions, He is afflicted.' He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
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The problem we have is not Labour, in however it is configured.
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I've always been really, really aware of my insecurities - really, really aware. I never developed that thick skin that keeps you from letting things get to you.
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When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world.
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We would rather be ruined than changed We would rather die in our dread Than climb the cross of the moment And let our illusions die.
