W. H. Auden Quotes
All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden
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I've written many extra verses to songs that I learned to sing - an extra verse about a friend, or just add some verse - and that led to writing my own songs.
Jackson Browne
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Be obscure clearly.
E. B. White
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Even though my songs may sound very personal, to me most of them are fiction. It is a great way for me to be able to live a fantasy life as a writer because I get to be someone else, someplace else for three and a half minutes, just like the listener.
Nanci Griffith
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I'm not anti-fashion, but I've always had a bit of a punk attitude. That's important, I think. I do my own thing.
Sade Adu
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I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
Maggie Q
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I was, I remember, I still remember when the first time I pointed the telescope at the sky and I saw Saturn with the rings. It was a beautiful image.
Umberto Guidoni
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Fatigue is what we experience, but it is what a match is to an atomic bomb.
Laura Hillenbrand
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It's no secret that I'm called to a different place, maybe, for some of the beliefs in the LGBTQ community because of my faith. With that said, I'm also called to be accepting and compassionate.
Karen Handel
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I spend hours playing chess because I find it so much fun. The day it stops being fun is the day I give up.
Magnus Carlsen
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Scientists are doing an awful lot of damage to the world in the name of helping it. I don't mind attacking my own fraternity because I am ashamed of it.
Kary Mullis
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Blessed with Mom and Dad's remarkable genes, raised on big words and big, iconoclastic attitudes, Larry and I, before entering kindergarten, knew who we were, what we wanted, and how we would get there.
Dan Hill
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Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.
E. O. Wilson
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I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.
Victor Hugo
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I am convinced that we are in a terminal process.
E. P. Thompson
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It took me a long time to reach the bottom and it went through various stages. I went from drugs into an alcohol stage. For a while, one feels, "Ah, I've kicked drugs," but what I discovered was I had another addiction instead.
David Bowie
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Ultimately, I've learned to pride myself on being quirky. I very much adore people who are outcasts, and I've always loved to be around interesting, circus-type people.
Karen Elson
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Now, guitar was pretty cool. Everybody knew something on the guitar. So I wanted to play guitar, but I told my dad if he wanted me to keep studying something, I'd like to study piano.
Jackson Browne
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All sins tend to be addictive, and the terminal point of addiction is damnation.
W. H. Auden
