W. H. Auden Quotes
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I like the way hip-hop is now. It's grown up enough so that it can get involved with politics if it feels like it.
Nas -
Everybody feels better about himself, his community, and his country if employers are paying workers well. Economics, though, teaches that if every employer is pressured to raise wages, some labor will be priced out of the market.
Edmund Phelps -
I felt nobody would understand what was going on in my mind.
Gabriela Sabatini -
Life's full of lots of dream-stealers always telling you you need to do something more sensible. I think it doesn't matter what your dream is, just fight the dream-stealers and hold onto it.
Bear Grylls -
Israel has a security concern involving geography. But geography does not have the same value it did in 1967.
Rahm Emanuel -
I think my novel, 'Walden Two,' has made people stop and look at the culture they have inherited and wonder if it is the last word or whether it can be changed.
B. F. Skinner
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Having people jumping in front of you taking a photo can be unnerving.
Orlando Bloom -
I'll remind you that the West signed a deal with North Korea, said it would make the world a safer place, and, of course, all the words evaporated, and North Korea acquired nuclear weapons.
Naftali Bennett -
Without troublesome work, no one can have any concrete, full idea of what pure mathematical research is like or of the profusion of insights that can be obtained from it.
Edmund Husserl -
I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki -
Working in a bar was a horrific idea for me.
Patrick deWitt -
We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.
Hansie Cronje
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke -
There is also an epidemic of infertility in this country. There are more women who have put off child-bearing in favor of their professional lives. For them, the only way they are going to have a family is to adopt from China.
Iris Chang -
The same thing which is now called Christian religion existed among the ancients. They have begun to call 'Christian' the true religion which existed before.
Saint Augustine -
One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
Cameron Russell -
One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation.
Oscar Wilde -
You would not believe that Paula Patton and I have the same trainer.
Octavia Spencer
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We didn't have the lane ropes, we had to get up higher in the water to avoid the little waves.
Johnny Weissmuller -
I made every single piece myself, each individual component, so it was quite time consuming.
Kit Williams -
The main thing my bookcase says about me is that I'm not French.
Pamela Druckerman -
Many of our television hosts are modern-day carnival barkers. We get dopamine, adrenalin, and oxytocin all at once. It's an adult video game. But instead of expertly separating us from our wallets, they're separating us from things much more valuable. Our time, our sense of perspective, and our judgment. And they are separating us from each other.
Benjamin E. Sasse -
A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
W. H. Auden