W. H. Auden Quotes
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.W. H. Auden
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
Oren Peli -
I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
Irina Shayk -
China is a country, still, of great contrast. While hundreds of millions of people are part of the middle class and yearn for things made in America - American brands, movies, music - there are other hundreds of millions of people throughout China who are living on the equivalent of one U.S. dollar a day.
Gary Locke -
Don't forget to eat a lot of greens and fish oil pills. Those are two of the best things to keep your skin glowing.
Irina Shayk -
I think everybody should focus on inner beauty.
Paloma Faith -
In the Senate, you can become one of the nation's leading voices on the issues.
Tammy Duckworth
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The relationships we have with people are extremely important to success on and off the job.
Zig Ziglar -
I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man.
Zhuangzi -
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
Karlheinz Stockhausen -
I think music has gone through a period of something very severe, rather radical, rather the way painting did with cubism.
Harrison Birtwistle -
I love when I'm writing and I'm cringing because I know I'm doing something right.
Zoe Cassavetes -
The law of humanity ought to be composed of the past, the present, and the future, that we bear within us; whoever possesses but one of these terms, has but a fragment of the law of the moral world.
Edgar Quinet
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If everyone does some good, think of what a good world this will be.
Jackie Chan -
I think all our characters are an amalgam of people we know in our world and ourselves.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
Floyd Abrams -
Faith is never identical with piety.
Karl Barth -
The Bush tax cuts, they ought to be made permanent in my mind so there is certainty out there.
Gary Herbert -
A true nature is a gloomy monolith, sort of like that old black rotary phone that I had to sing 'Happy Birthday' to Grandpa on. But novelists, damn us, still need true natures - so we can give them to our protagonists. And so readers can vaguely predict how they'll behave when we trap them in 'situations' that they can't IM their way out of.
Walter Kirn
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An advertising agency is 85 percent confusion and 15 percent commission.
Fred Allen -
And makes me poor indeed.
William Shakespeare -
I think the more stressful our times get, the more we look for fantasy escapes.
Jeri Ryan -
It is my belief that the basic knowledge that we're providing to the world will have a profound impact on the human condition and the treatments for disease and our view of our place on the biological continuum.
Craig Venter -
The choice of souls was in most cases based on their own experience of a previous life... Knowledge easily acquired is that which the enduing self had in an earlier life, so that it flows back easily.
Plato -
The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
W. H. Auden