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'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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I just try to attack the rim as hard as I can. Try to get the crowd pumped up a little bit.
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There are a lot of people who've been able to ditch their Windows machines and switch over to Linux because they can now use their Exchange server for calendaring and collaboration from their Linux desktop.
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In Britain, the big supermarkets dominate our food chain. British supermarkets are some of the best in the world at controlling, manipulating and delivering cheap food.
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I met Peter Sellers when I was 21 and we got married ten days later. He was not right mentally, but I hung in there for four years before I left.
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Being timeless means you can listen to something when you're feeling a certain way, and it still has that same power as it did when you listened to the record for the first time. Timeless is abnormal. It sticks out. It can't be recreated.
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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.
