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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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've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.
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That's what real punk is about - doing it yourself and building a community where people share ideas and share creativity.
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As long as there are girls, we need guy bands. However, in this day, it is not good enough to just sing great. You have to write, sing and play. We want it all.
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The minute you start feeling like you've got it down, you know what you're doing, you're dead in the water.
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I used to think that love was giving up everything of yourself and giving it to the other person. Now, I've realized that love is when you have somebody that doesn't make you give up half of yourself.
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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.
