W. H. Auden Quotes
In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
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I did not direct my life. I didn't design it. I never made decisions. Things always came up and made them for me. That's what life is.
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
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Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.
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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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Back in the mid '90s, I went to a film festival, and they were airing 'Central Park West' at the same time as this cute little romantic comedy movie called 'French Exit,' and I got to go from one theater where I was goofy, falling over myself, to this kind of evil vixen kind of character.
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If Mr. Bush and Mr. Forbes don't get most of the votes, they should be arrested for wasting money.
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My desire to be an artist really came out of being broke and unemployed and incapable of holding a job down. That's what it was driven by for sure.
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Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
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In occupied Iraq, the introduction of new paper money took almost a year, 20 or so Boeing 747s, the mobilisation of the U.S. military's might, three printing firms, and hundreds of trucks.
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Every teenager and everybody around the ages from 10 to 18 has to go through finding out who they are.
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I've never fabricated or plagiarized anything.
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From the spinners, Anil and I have been together for a long time and I respect him a lot.
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We're all capable of mistakes, but I do not care to enlighten you on the mistakes we may or may not have made.
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Genetically modified organism (GMO) foods are feared and hated by environmentalists and the public alike. Yet the scientific assessment of GMOs is remarkably different. Every major scientific evaluation of GMO technology has concluded that GMOs are safe for human consumption and are a benefit to the environment.
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I have a terrifying long list of fears. Literally everything - diseases, spiders... and people getting tired of me.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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My wife attends a Presbyterian church.
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It's a very hard industry, and it's very cold. It's loving for when you have a hit record, but when you don't have anything going on, there's really not much support.
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In the past, I had a knee-jerk approach to work, and it showed on screen. I was doing movies for the wrong reasons - trying to juggle dates, do too many guest appearances, take up projects under pressure or for emotional reasons.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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We make time for what we truly value. We build habits and routines around the things that really matter to us. This is an important principle to understand as we seek to build our lives around the gospel. Do you want a cross centered life? A cross centered life is made up of cross centered days.
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When you're a kid, if you watch 'The Jeffersons' with your family at seven o'clock, it seems like a natural phenomenon, like the sun setting. The universe is a strange, strange place when all of a sudden you can't use your glass with the Bionic Woman on it any more.
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In a game, just losing is almost as satisfying as just winning... In life the loser's score is always zero.
