W. H. Auden Quotes
I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
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Broadway is really my life.
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When I was little, one of my father's friends owned a circus. For four absolutely incredible summers, I found myself being the only boy in Ireland who didn't dream of running away with the circus. I was in it!
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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.
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Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.
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'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
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I just have a harder time, I think, feeling close to people without self consciousness.
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It's mystifying to me why the House leadership will not allow a straight up-or-down vote on a pay raise. I vote against every pay raise because taxpayers deserve better.
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The ownership of computers in the home is far less than the statistics show, because usually when the computer breaks down once, that is the end of it for a long, long time. They do not have the money or incentive to get the computer repaired.
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The power should be in individual democracies in individual communities. It shouldn't be an oligarchy or some small group of elite. Power should be with the people and not with some politician or some heir to the throne or some madman.
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With my childhood, it's a wonder I'm not psychotic. I was the little Jewish boy in the non-Jewish neighborhood. It was a little like being the first Negro enrolled in the all-white school. I grew up in libraries and among books, without friends.
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I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.
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The best fiction stays with you and changes you.
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I have always been resistant to doctrine, and any spirituality I had experienced thus far in my life had been much more abstract and not aligned with any recognized religion. For me, the most trustworthy vehicle for spirituality had always proven to be music. It cannot be manipulated, or politicized, and when it is, that becomes immediately obvious.
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I just want to be the best. I haven't been in an all-out war. That doesn't mean I'm not the best.
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Those who have been once intoxicated with power, and have derived any kind of emolument from it, even though but for one year, never can willingly abandon it. They may be distressed in the midst of all their power; but they will never look to any thing but power for their relief.
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The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions.
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I don't think the mystical experience can be verbalized. When the ego disappears, so does power over language.
