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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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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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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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 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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Hugh Grant is the main man. He's the number one romantic comedy man in the world.
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For whosoever commands the sea commands the trade; whosoever commands the trade of the world commands the riches of the world, and consequently the world itself.
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Me gustas cuando callas porque estás como ausente,y me oyes desde lejos, y mi voz no te toca.
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Power breeds responsibilities, in international affairs as in domestic - or even private. To dodge or disclaim these responsibilities is one form of the abuse of power.
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I read On the Road in maybe 1959. It changed my life like it changed everyone else's.
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The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to be careful to prevent their growth in our own.
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I have increasingly, over the years, felt that religion today does our civilization more harm than good.
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Practically all the relationships I know are based on a foundation of lies and mutually accepted delusion.
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In the '80s, I loved the movies of the '70s. Also I remember loving Klute 1971. I loved Jane Fonda. Actually, I auditioned for the last movie she made before she retired for a while, Stanley and Iris 1990, which Martha Plimpton got.
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Culture' means a long receptivity to things of the mind and the spirit.
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The surest sign that a man has a genuine taste of his own is that he is uncertain of it.
