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 stand here today - in the shadow of my parents' and grandparents' accomplishments - because of their willingness to sacrifice and look to my future.
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I'm a really big Fiona Apple fan, and more times than not, when I put her on in the car, people are surprised. I think they associate her less as a songwriter and more as a '90s MTV generation artist.
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I loved theatre and did magic, too, but I was never the best at it - there was never a teacher saying, 'You're great, you have to make this your career!' I was good at science and math. I figured I'd go into science and become a dentist.
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Life is like an ice-cream cone, you have to lick it one day at a time.
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I'm often the one in my gang of friends who's worried about how we're going to get from A to B. I'm the one running around saying, 'Is somebody going to do something about it?' Everyone else is bit more chilled.
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The parlour cars and Pullmans are packed also with scented assassins, salad-eaters who murder on milk.
