W. H. Auden Quotes
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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In the last 5 years, American employers have lost over $150 billion of productivity to depression alone. That is more than the GDP of 28 different States during the same period.
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Being an actress wasn't a plan at all, so what's happened to me is very strange. Life isn't very normal, even though I'm still very much a normal girl. I ride the subway, I ride the bus, and all of that.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in presenting characters that are more challenging, threatening, complicated and unpredictable.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
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I think everyone's experience with a terminal disease is so deeply personal and unique to the person, the context in which they're living and the relationships that they have.
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I am an untrained musician and a common man's singer.
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I love Vanna White as much as the next guy.
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For people who feel things in an enormous way, it's pretty hard to live in this world.
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Celebrities are just like us and like any of your friends. I love working with people.
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The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
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I like visualizing a lot, so the night before a competition and right before, I will visualize myself. I'll close my eyes, turn away from everybody, and just see myself doing exactly what I want to accomplish.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.
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With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.
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The thing that everybody loves about the 'Burnett Show' was that you felt like you were really there - all that fun stuff stayed in the show, and I think that's why everybody remembers it so fondly because that just doesn't happen anymore on television.
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If we can see past preconceived limitations, then the possibilities are endless.
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Sometimes, you need someone to believe in you when you don't believe in yourself.
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We can work with anybody. I mean, we passed the 9/11 health bill with Tom Cotton. Most people would assume I wouldn't be able to work with Tom Cotton and Rand Paul and Ted Cruz.
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We are choosing to invest in health now for a variety of reasons. Advances in technology hold huge promise for changing people's lives globally -- both those who are sick and those who are well. Peter Neupert brings a mix of business leadership and expertise in the health field to guide Microsoft's work in this area.
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Health is the state about which medicine has nothing to say.
