W. H. Auden Quotes
In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
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There's a fast-track if you can do the networking. For some personalities it works, but for mine it doesn't.
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I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.
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Sometimes I'm more stubborn than I am smart.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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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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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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There is a saying in Baltimore that crabs may be prepared in fifty ways and that all of them are good.
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It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really, for new ways of translating the beauty of it.
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This country-right-or-wrong business is getting a little out-of-date.. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts.
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I would like to have the original ending to my Lord of the Rings instead of the one they released. In my original cut I had the victory at Helm's Deep as the final sequence.
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Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.
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I remember I was in grade school, the fourth grade, in a free reading period in the library. Someone in my class found a copy of the Forbes 400, a list of the richest people in America, and my dad's name was on it.
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Honestly, I don't really read about myself. I look at the pictures sometimes. Sometimes I'm looking at them, and I'm thinking, 'They could choose some better ones.' But I don't spend time reading about myself because I know what I'm up to. I prefer to read about other people.
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If you think it's simple, then you have misunderstood the problem.
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If I was fighting myself, I always say that I would kill Mike Tyson but then again I don't know how hard a punch Mike Tyson can take and I don't know how hard Mike Tyson's punch is. I don't know. For me looking at me, I think I can beat me.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
