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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To know that which lies before us in daily life is the prime wisdom.
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In the hospital, I promised myself that I ever walked again, that I would eat well and swim every day.
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I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.
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I remember one day, when things were going frightfully well, I went to buy myself a really smashing car. I asked them to show me a Porsche with an automatic gearbox, and the salesman called over all the other salesmen, and they stood around absolutely roaring with laughter.
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The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
