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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My first novel, 'The Lions of Lucerne,' just poured out of me. It was an amazing feeling of accomplishment. My biggest fear and therefore my biggest obstacle to becoming an author had been, 'What if I spend all that time and the book is no good?'
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I think about death. I don't want to die with clothes in the cleaners.
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I've only twice in my life come across someone with both high IQ and high EQ naturally; and that was because their parents were super high EQ, and the parents just EQ'd the hell out of them. They're inevitably very successful because now you've got someone who's sharper than the average person and well-rounded, too.
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That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke by stroke you build a life. This process requires everything great art requires-risk-tasking, hope, a great deal of imagination, all the qualities that are the building blocks of art. You must be able to dream something nearly impossible and toil to bring it into existence.
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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.
