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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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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I've learned so many things from directors in my acting career. There are even some things I've learned that I didn't want to do. There are those directors who've really made me shine and others who've made me opaque.
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I have sung to large crowds since then, and there is a feeling that once you get over 100,000 people, you kind of lose the control element, you don't know if you are really getting through or not.
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Moving from Wales to Italy is like moving to a different country.
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Usually, TED only invites the most accomplished and famous people in the world to give talks.
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Good discipline requires time. When we have no time to give our children, or no time that we are willing to give, we don't even observe them closely enough to become aware of when their need for our disciplinary assistance is expressed subtley.
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The commendable conduct of man is shown by his discriminate treatment of merits and sympathetic regard for pleasure and pain, profit and loss of others. The contrary course is reprehensible.
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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.
