W. H. Auden Quotes
Every day America's destroyed and re-created,America is what you do,America is I and you,America is what you choose to make it.
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It is better not to express what one means than to express what one does not mean.
Karl Kraus
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As kids, we spontaneously sing and dance and tell stories, and along the way, someone comes and says, 'No. You shouldn't be doing that.' And we slowly begin to unlearn our passions. I think you have to hold on to those things.
J. Michael Straczynski
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Best player I ever played against? I mean, I played against many, many good players, so I don't know who to keep. I would say Ronaldo the Fenomeno.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic
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How long you live is less important than how healthy you are along the way.
S. Jay Olshansky
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I came across 'The Song of Achilles' by Madeline Miller in one of the most romantic ways one can find a story. I was digging through a pile of used books at my local library when my hand gravitated toward its brilliant teal and glistening gold cover.
Taylor Jenkins Reid
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Properties have different characteristics, like companies, and the market throws up more opportunities because it is inefficient.
Barry Sternlicht
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No critic writing about a film could say more than the film itself, although they do their best to make us think the oppposite.
Federico Fellini
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You know those little snow globes that you shake up? I always thought my brain was sort of like that. You know, where you just give it a shake and watch what comes out and shake it again. It's like that.
Gary Larson
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Any organization or any individual that targets civilians and kills them for political agenda is a terrorist organization.
Feisal Abdul Rauf
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My journey has been that of a character actor.
Harry Carey, Jr.
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Whatever I know how to do, I've already done. Therefore I must always do what I do not know how to do.
Eduardo Chillida
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In the first English class I attended, Prof. E. H. Elliot, addressing me, asked if I really belonged to the Junior B. A. class, and I had to answer him in the affirmative. He then proceeded to inquire how old I was.
C. V. Raman
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I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.
Lance Armstrong
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My mother had an illegal abortion in 1960, which was the year the birth control pill came out, but I guess a little late for her, but - and I never knew. I found out when my father, after her death, got her FBI file.
Katha Pollitt
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My parents' long and happy marriage was a great ideal to live up to, but a tough one.
Olivia Williams
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I don't sleep. I hate those little slices of death.
Walter Reisch
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I had a dream cast when Dan first went off and wrote 'Ghostbusters 3' by himself. It was so long ago that my dream cast was Ben Stiller, Chris Farley, and Chris Rock. That would have been cool. Now, a lot of time has passed, and there are a lot of young funny people.
Harold Ramis
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I have made an art form of the interview. The French are the best interviewers, despite their addiction to the triad, like all Cartesians.
Orson Welles
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
Nawal El Saadawi
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I wanted to make something that I wanted to hear that I wasn't hearing.
Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
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I think 'Country Girl' is one song that can veer into country or hip-hop or rap. You can listen to it and enjoy the humor and the fun in it.
Luke Bryan
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At 11, I got my first job in a mini-series for America, and it was very exciting.
Tamsin Egerton
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A government, to afford the needful protection and exercise proper care for the welfare of a people, must have homogeneity in its constituents. It is this necessity which has divided the human race into separate nations, and finally has defeated the grandest efforts which conquerors have made to give unlimited extent to their domain.
Jefferson Davis
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Every day America's destroyed and re-created,America is what you do,America is I and you,America is what you choose to make it.
W. H. Auden