W. H. Auden Quotes
In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Brazil is a country largely resistant to ideology. This is a strange fact given its founding by followers of the French philosopher Auguste Comte, who inscribed an epigram from his philosophy of positivism in the national flag: Order and Progress.
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I'm always learning new things about myself.
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Why trip off some random person in Idaho that doesn't feel my vibe? Like, no thank you. Stay in your life; I'll stay in mine.
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Words can't describe how one would feel in that moment after doing a test for something you really want but in your heart you don't think you have a chance of getting.
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
