W. H. Auden Quotes
A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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The point really is that a writer tends to write a book that he or she tends to write. It's as simple as that. Of course, it's important to make a living and all that, but the main impulse as far as I'm concerned - and I'm sure as other writers are concerned - is to tell a story that I feel impelled by.
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When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
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A few months after NASA was formed, I was asked if I knew anyone who would like to set up a program in space astronomy.
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Marriage has always been a state and local issue.
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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To be honest, I wasn't a sci-fi geek at all. But I do love a good sci-fi film, especially one that can really take you away. And I read some reality-bending novels growing up, like stuff by Vonngeut, so I already had one part my brain open to the unnatural and unusual, and it's generally fun to venture into that world and film in it.
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What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.
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Every joke in 'The Office' was unexpected. I cringed; I could hardly look. I cried with laughter.
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Well, you know, I was through the whole of the Second World War and saw all my friends killed.
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I love Star City - it is my home.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.
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I was born in Argentina where polo is popular, and my father always loved horses, so he encouraged me to play. He's the main reason I started to play polo and get involved with the sport.
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It's not about 'succeeding,' but sometimes on a film, you know you've captured something.
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I love the Web, but the basis of my work is going through the physical books. When you go to the library, you see other books around on the shelves that you never knew existed. You can flip through a book and see the whole outline of it.
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The Central Bank should have a permanent window for discounting high quality securities where banks could go and discount these. It gives peace of mind to the banks. In the absence of this facility, what banks tend to do is to keep a liquidity cushion for emergency requirements. This is a very expensive way of managing liquidity.
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Thinking differently is my strength.
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It is true that when there's a drone attack, those - that the - the terrorists are killed, it's true. But 500 and 5,000 more people rises against it, and more terrorism occurs, and more - more bomb blasts occurs.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Countries have largely been left alone to handle or ignore their educational problems as they see fit. In part, this was because we assumed that the contexts and challenges were so different from nation to nation that education could not be tackled at the international level.
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It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
