W. H. Auden Quotes
If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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It is time for Hillary Clinton to permanently retire.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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I have to be very careful about diet and exercise.
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I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.
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I have always thought if there is a game, and there have been a lot of fouls on me, then I have been playing well for the team, so that means we're having a good match. You can win a free-kick when there's a foul, and that's a chance to score a goal.
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When I was a kid, we never had a videogame in my house. But my cousin did, and each time I went to her house I was able to play 'Tetris' and 'Mario.' Those were the only two games I played as a child.
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I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world.
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I can't tell you what a pleasure it is to just put my hair under a wig cap and slap on a wig that's already done. It's dress up for your hair!
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I've always been a Nike person.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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All my siblings became artists. One's a novelist, my brother is a painter, my sister was a costume designer.
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My interest in protein breakdown as a research problem began in l955 at about the time I joined the Biochemistry Department of Yale University. It was known that proteins break down intracellularly in the mature animal.
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Fantasy isn't something you run out of.
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I wouldn't call myself anti-nuclear.
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After almost 50 years in which federal spending averaged about 20 percent of GDP, Joe Sestak and Nancy Pelosi took federal spending to 25 percent. You know, that's a 25 percent increase in the size of the government overnight. That's what we - that's what we've got to rein in.
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The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
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I just love comic books. I've always loved comic book art, and I just think it's amazing.
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I think some people are on a mission to die, and I never was.
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Descobri que a leitura é uma forma servil de sonhar. Se tenho de sonhar, porque não sonhar os meus próprios sonhos?
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As a Christian Scientist, I don't go to doctors and get diagnoses.
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I had them all fooled into believing I was normal and well-adjusted, a rock of sensibility who could always be counted on to have a positive attitude.
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If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.
