W. H. Auden Quotes
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I was obsessed with work in my youth. It's why I didn't get married until I was 38 and the reason I didn't have kids.
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I listen to Helmet - and I love Helmet, they're a great band - but every song sounds the same.
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I had seen a lot of music movies that celebrated music or that showed the kind of joys from playing music, which is a big part of it of course, and not something that I would want to deny.
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People say, 'Are you going to be beating up one side or the other side?' It's everybody. It's the entire education establishment that is in power.
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I grew up in the suburbs of Sydney, an arid kind of place, but every day I took the ferry across the harbour to get to school. I'd watch the ships coming in and going out.
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I worked at CNN for almost 26 years. I worked in Mutual Radio for 20 years. I've been in the business 57 years. I have never seen a bias off the air or on.
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Many leaders of big organizations, I think, don't believe that change is possible. But if you look at history, things do change, and if your business is static, you're likely to have issues.
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An MC is somebody who can control the crowd. An MC is a master of ceremonies so not only can you say your rap, you can rock the party.
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I have a day job. I can make movies when I want to.
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It is every woman's dream to be some man's dream woman.
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How long it takes to write a book depends on its length.
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Any government that has a sincere desire for reform and progress should understand the benefit of objective and constructive criticism.
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I can't predict whether I'll leave here freely or in handcuffs.
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In some ways, my most comfortable feeling has been that of being an outsider coming in, but over the years I've tired of that and I'm ready to feel at home. That's what music gives me: a feeling of absolute home.
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When I was writing 'The Satanic Verses,' if you had asked me about the phenomenon that we all now know as radical Islam, I wouldn't have had much to say. As recently as the mid-1980s, it didn't seem to be a big deal.
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The late Seventies was the death of the manufacturing age in the United States. It was also a time when the Pictures Generation artists were getting started. They co-opted the language of advertising. The factory disappeared, and weirdly, so did the art object - it was the age of making gestures, not objects.
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Well-run libraries are filled with people because what a good library offers cannot be easily found elsewhere: an indoor public space in which you do not have to buy anything in order to stay.
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Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
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When I paint I feel that all the artists of the past are behind me.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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Film is such a very good tool for communicating emotions, and all designers and creative people look to inspire an emotional response.
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One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.
