W. H. Auden Quotes
God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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We all know the epicentre of terrorism in the world today is Pakistan. The world community has to come to grips with this harsh reality.
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I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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A lot of young players don't really know much about the history of the game and a lot of them are missing out on what the game is all about, especially the whole concept of sportsmanship and teamwork.
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Theatre is how I first encountered art on any level.
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In 1996, Al Jazeera was the first TV station in the Arab world to allow Israelis to appear on the screen and express their views and address the Arab world. Before that, Arab broadcasters did not allow what was perceived as the enemy to appear on the screen.
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Design can successfully bind the ancient nomadic cultures with today's global marketplace, ensuring the preservation of traditions and knowledge for further generations. This aspect of research is obviously rich in its business potential as well.
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Life is tragic comedy, in a way. There is humor.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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We are a typical working class northern family, big into our football... no one in the family was into acting. But I remember seeing a panto when I was about six and thinking, 'Yeah... I wouldn't mind doing that.'
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Being an actor is a good way to earn a living. And to meet fabulous people. It's great to live very comfortably. I've been lucky, I've had a lot of fun with great roles, but it is true that if I were extremely rich, I would stop and I would go to play football on a beach in the Caribbean with my children.
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It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
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My music does say a lot about me and what I went through. All the songs are about things I have gone through and what I am thinking. I wrote about my family, friends and boys, of course, and about life.
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I think what's important is for us to decipher what is honest and what is dishonest and be accepting of those things and not operating from fear.
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You get three hours' sleep and then you start all over again. Relentless. Pre-production was almost harder than filming. I was all over the city every day. It was really exhausting.
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Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.
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We can only undo the election if the behavior meets the constitutional standard of subverting and threatening our system of government.
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Donald Trump is about the rise of right-wing extremism, not only in this country, but in Europe.
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The Great Work is, before all things, the creation of man by himself, that is to say, the full and entire conquest of his faculties and his future; it is especially the perfect emancipation of his will.
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The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part of his nation, part of his family. He may have to make some compromises.
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Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house.
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God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.
