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 wake up at 5:30, 6 in the morning, but don't head into the office right away. I like to hang out with my wife, talk about things, get some coffee, you know.
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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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If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.
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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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Maybe it's because I've been an actor for such a long time, but I think, unless you're a big star, you don't really have much control over anything. I've never been able to make any plans.
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Competition, I think, is always a good thing.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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Seek the ones who never stop caring, who break down your walls, and help you come back to yourself
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There's a whole, that is a whole subgenre within martial arts cinema. The supernatural martial arts movie. Particularly within Asian cinema.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
