W. H. Auden Quotes
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.W. H. Auden
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If you're thin-skinned, you don't belong doing what I do for a living.
Gary Bettman -
I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
Zuleikha Robinson -
I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.
D. B. Sweeney -
Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
Ramez Naam -
When they offered me 'Wayne's World 2,' they said: 'We were going to give this to another actor, then we thought we'd see you'. I just thought: 'Surely you always had me in mind for that just in the way that it's written?', but they never admitted it. It was a wonderful gig to do. Really special.
Ralph Brown
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
Oliver North -
The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
Hamid Karzai -
I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
Sam Taylor-Johnson -
Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
Danica McKellar -
I can feel it in my bones that no matter what we do, even if we do not do anything, the revolutionary government of Madame Cory Aquino will collapse.
Ferdinand Marcos -
Understanding where to be in your own zone really takes some time and development to learn.
Patrick Kane
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
Walt Whitman -
I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.
Nancy Reagan -
I have a lot of growing up to do, or a lot of growing down. I think that's probably more appropriate.
Macaulay Culkin -
The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
Becky Lynch -
I'm proud to be part of the resistance.
J. B. Pritzker -
Fashion is supposed to be light and not try too hard.
Carine Roitfeld
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Everyone has some sort of connection to mental illness.
Alice Ripley -
I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you.
Rabindranath Tagore -
It is probably very necessary to present your ego at some point.
Eberhard Weber -
To give life a meaning, one must have a purpose larger than self.
Will Durant -
I have loved Elliott Carter's music for many years.
Daniel Barenboim -
Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self.
W. H. Auden