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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I am afraid that this chapter will amply demonstrate the truth of Clarke's 69th Law, viz., 'Reading computer manuals without the hardware is as frustrating as reading sex manuals without the software.' In both cases the cure is simple though usually very expensive.
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I know. In fact, I am never wrong.
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It's part of me, Scotland. I'm still immersed in it even though I am not there.
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I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.
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The reader feels as if he is in Chongjin, where starving people ate the bark off trees; or atop Mount Taesong with the elite of Pyongyang, whose existence is a mix of sadism and whimsy; or with the masses who are bombarded day and night with the propaganda of North Korea's alternate reality.
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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.
