W. H. Auden Quotes
My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
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Sure, we think it would be great to live forever, but it really wouldn't.
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I drink a fair amount of ramen noodles.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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The differences between revolution in art and revolution in politics are enormous. Revolution in art lies not in the will to destroy but in the revelation of what has already been destroyed. Art kills only the dead.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I don't spend a lot on holidays, but have been very fortunate to travel extensively through doing various challenges around the world. The best place I've ever been is Argentina.
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I'm lucky that I have my family, I'm lucky that my parents are still together. Those are the things that I cherish.
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When people treat you mean, you dislike them for that, but not because of their person, who they are. I was born and raised in a segregated society, but when I left there, I had nobody I disliked other than the people that'd mistreated me, and that only lasted for as long as they were mistreating me.
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World War II has always been of great interest to me. I've known for decades that it was just one more war the politicians suckered us into.
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I'm very fortunate to have gotten past the cancer problem.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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I think that our comfort is in our history.
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I've fallen in love in my life a few times. It's the most exciting part of being alive - that I've experienced, anyway.
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When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business!
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This adoration of an artist as a lone genius is quite misled, I think, because they are very much part of their time and their community.
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Spike Lee gave me the greatest reaction to the fact that I was this athlete-meets-artist, because I think he saw that I was different. I learned that oftentimes, Spike directs in a sense that he might just stare at you and look at you in a telepathic way of communicating.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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One of my biggest flaws is I don't take advice.
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Being married means I can break wind and eat ice cream in bed.
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I famously tasted shark fin soup many, many years ago before we understood exactly what was going on with the harvesting of sharks. I've consequently come out against it. I make personal choices in my life and stand behind them.
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The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities.
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Leaving Egypt and the people I loved so much, and the environment I liked, was definitely worth it, because I also have great love for medicine and science.
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My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.
