W. H. Auden Quotes
The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
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By the end of high school, I would do shows at the theater at night and then take the train home and go to school the next morning.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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We're a nation of celebrity and hero worshipers, so much so that we make heroes out of those who aren't, such as John Wayne: a patriotic, red-blooded, two-fisted American who spent the Second World War in the trenches on the movie lots of Hollywood.
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A horse is a thing of beauty... none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.
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You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I hope that the opening of the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial will be a life-altering experience that inspires every American to rededicate themselves to the fulfillment of Dr. King's dream.
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I like to change characters and then, slowly I believe the audience treat me as, like an actor who can fight. It's not like an action star.
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Today in the era of globalization there is no such issue as borders between states of the same nation.
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A revolution is not an event. It's a process. And it takes its time.
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If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
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The women I gravitate to are the ones who defy convention and reinvent themselves - hence, they reinvent the world around them.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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I love to do a messy top knot because it's so easy but looks like it could have taken a bit of effort!
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I have a high self-opinion - I don't need to hide that. I don't need to be self-deprecating.
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Stage-persona notwithstanding, I'm extremely shy and quiet. Almost painfully shy. People misinterpret that as being above it all or not interested.
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Well, the thought that everybody might have a personal computer at their desk or their home was certainly not on the mainstream of anybody's activity at that time.
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Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.
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I truly believe that we're about to enter a second golden age of design. The first one was in the '50s and '60s, when designers like Raymond Loewy, Charles Eames, George Nelson and Dieter Rams were shepherds of the brands they were working with. They had influence over the products and how companies communicated and promoted themselves.
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'Milton was right…' The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words 'Better to reign in Hell than to serve in Heaven.' There is always something they insist on keeping even at the price of misery…
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I grew up in a cloistered, conservative culture that adhered to strict gender roles. So it's easy to understand why the 'girl dressed as a boy' trope resonated so much. In a world that didn't want to give people like me adventures or significance, books with cross-dressing girls were treasures.
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The creature displayed the qualities reminiscent of both coelenterate and echinoderm. A terrene nudibranch? A mollusc deprived of its shell? More importantly, was the creature edible?
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A fleet of the most powerful vessels would be of little use in war without a personnel at least as efficient as that of our possible enemies.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
