W. H. Auden Quotes
In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
W. H. Auden
Quotes to Explore
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I adored my mom. I thought she was the best. I loved her very much.
Dan Fogelman
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We artists have the dignity to tell the truth to the people, unlike politicians.
Yoko Ono
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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.
Walter Kirn
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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.
Oriana Fallaci
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I have always found photography magical, and became more taken with it whilst modeling.
Hanneli Mustaparta
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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.
Idris Elba
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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.
Ralph Bakshi
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There are so many different people that I've emulated vocally. In the rock world - Sebastian Bach, Vince Neil, Freddie Mercury, Robert Plant. They all had amazing vocal talent.
Fergie
The Black Eyed Peas
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Why should I tell you?" he asked, with no small amount of petulance. "If you tell me, I will leave you alone," I said. "And if you don't tell me, I'm going to grab the nearest ghostwritten James Patterson romance novel and I am going to follow you through this store reading it out loud until you relent." Now I could see the fright beneath the defiance.
Rachel Cohn
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I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.
Barack Obama
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In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.
W. H. Auden
