W. H. Auden Quotes
The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
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I know a lot about Judy Garland. She was born in 1922, and I think she died in '69. When I was little, like, when I was 8, I knew all of her husbands' names.
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In social policy, when we provide a safety net, it should be designed to help people take more entrepreneurial risks, not to turn them into dependents. This doesn't mean that we should be callous to the underprivileged.
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I was too much of an innocent when I went to university.
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Bowie is a musician, but he works like a painter. Thom always thought that we should aspire to that.
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The idea is to work and to experiment. Some things will be creatively successful, some things will succeed at the box office, and some things will only - which is the biggest only - teach you things that see the future. And they're probably as valuable as any of your successes.
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Just getting to wake up and play somebody else for an entire day is just an amazing thing.
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We think a modern cloud lets you decide when you want to upgrade. We don't decide for you.
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Due to the reliance on the old heavy industries in many parts of the country, it makes perfect sense that we need to spend more money per head of population on welfare support in Scotland.
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Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.
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I used to work for a newspaper that covered local resource issues, and my coworkers and friends were journalists. Their reporting work was always pretty grim.
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We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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You're on your own with the book. And while you are writing fiction, you're spending all this time with people who don't actually exist, which is just madness.
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The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.
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I've always tried to push myself technically and to push myself visually. That's been part of the journey.
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Engineering or technology is all about using the power of science to make life better for people, to reduce cost, to improve comfort, to improve productivity, etc.
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I love romantic comedies. They're for me the easiest thing to do and the most natural to do. There's nothing natural about holding an uzi hanging out of a moving van shooting at people. That's not second nature to me, thank God.
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I used to do a lot of casual photography - back in the olden times when one used film - but it had fallen by the wayside over the years.
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We can, and must, shift to an economy in which 100% of our electricity is generated renewably.
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What made us different from other westerns was the fact that 'Gunsmoke' wasn't just action and a lot of shooting; they were character-study shows.
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And then I think now we are - you know his - like I've always said. His spirit is so large that we feel his presence around the show, and we always will. He will always have a voice.
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The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.
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Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
