W. H. Auden Quotes
Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
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Like the Elizabeth I play, Queen Elizabeth is a monarch who actually moves with the times. She gets new information, assimilates it, and changes in order the fit in with the way the world is moving. I admire that.
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I am a massive fan of early electronica like Steve Reich, Pat Metheny and Thomas Dolby. I used to be a big raver, too, so anything dance. I love ambient music like Tunng. I love acoustic and classical, too.
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But now that I'm a blonde, guys are so blatant about coming on to me.
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
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I don't think I can play Mr. Bachchan.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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Most people learn to improvise on their own, listening to records, endless hours of noodling on their instrument in the bedroom with all their spare time. That's traditionally how people learn.
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Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
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I cannot abide being bored.
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I look forward to working alongside Univision's exceptional team as we work to further realize the substantial growth potential of this dynamic organization.
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The thing is that pictures are everywhere. The question is what we don't see, and why don't we see so much. I just see it.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe.
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I bought an electric scooter in sixth grade. Bankrupted me.
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There have been a few friends who have taught me some great lessons in life. I wouldn't like to name them. They did things that I never expected out of them that left me heart-broken. It was during these rough patches in life that they left me alone. I know now that it was only my position that they were interested in.
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When you're growing up, you realize you've got a lot of heavy things on your shoulders.
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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What I feel most strongly here being in Congress is kind of the burden - the good burden - of representing all of our military.
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It's been my experience that every man has in him the possibility of doing well some one thing, no matter how humble, and that there's some one, in some place, who wants that special thing done. The difference between a fellow who succeeds and one who fails is that the first gets out and chases after the man who needs him, and the second sits around waiting to be hunted up.
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What's done is done. You've got to move on. I don't want to say anything bad about the mother of my children.
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Language is decanted and shared. If only one person is left alive speaking a language - the case with some American Indian languages - the language is dead. Language takes two and their multiples.
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Anyone who has a child today should train him to be either a physicist or a ballet dancer. Then he'll escape.
