W. H. Auden Quotes
It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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Life's not fair, is it? Some of us drink champagne in the fast lane, and some of us eat our sandwiches by the loose chippings on the A597.
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I worked with the Neville Brothers for 40-some years on the highway, and up and down since I can remember - funk from New Orleans.
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I think it's always easy to be sympathetic to parts of the government in detail; in their concrete manifestations. Because obviously, we don't have government for no reason.
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The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
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As people want to move money around the world, they're going to be moving in and out of bitcoin quickly, but they're still going to own it for some period of time... and the size of that working capital requirement will grow as the global economy grows.
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I go straight from thinking about my narrator to being him.
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We don't expect every operator to be Christian, but we tell them we do expect them to operate on Christian principles.
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For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life.
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We must always remember that the Chinese revolution was not a peasant's revolution, but one of the extreme Right.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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With a popular show, you know that there's expectations there, so that's a little nerve-wracking when you're new and you're just trying to find your legs on something, but it's exciting, too, because that's what we work so hard for.
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The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.
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I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.
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I used to do school plays. I never really took any acting classes. I'm just a natural ham, I guess.
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Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.
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By necessity, budgets require hard choices.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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Whenever I get days off, I go home, or friends and family come up. I'm in contact with them every day, so it's like we live next door, but obviously we live in two different countries. Football is my job, and everyone around me has given me the opportunity to purely concentrate on football, and everyone else worries about everything else.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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I never want to make the quarterback feel like I'm being a distraction or I've got any negativity toward him.
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When we do something good, people immediately follow it.
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I especially love right-now sci-fi: stuff that happens in current time but incorporates a scientific breakthrough that is currently being explored.
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It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ.
