W. H. Auden Quotes
The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
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Don't assume that the answers are out there in the form of somebody else already doing something. Sometimes they are. But you have to think beyond that.
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May the soul of the late President Milton Obote... a long-time member of this parliament, rest in peace.
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Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.
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I'm awful with directions, and I'm not very handy around the house.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I hadn't focused on mechanics since I signed professionally.
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Greetings and death to our enemies.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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If it wasn't for golf, I'd probably still be peddling jewelry or be in the sugar mills somewhere.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
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I think it's really important to be conscious of yourself and the world around you. For me, that meant reading a lot and reporting.
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She plucked from my lapel the invisible strand of lint (the universal act of woman to proclaim ownership).
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I decided to write 'True Refuge' during a major dive in my own health. Diagnosed with a genetic disease that affected my mobility, I faced tremendous fear and grief about losing the fitness and physical freedom I loved.
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So many people love sci-fi, and they're so loyal.
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Since my first dive in a deep-diving submersible, when I went down and turned out the lights and saw the fireworks displays, I've been a bioluminescence junky. But I would come back from those dives and try to share the experience with words, and they were totally inadequate to the task. I needed some way to share the experience directly.
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I go on stage with what God gave me - and that's a natural high. I don't need nothing to perk me up. The audience picks me up enough. That's the total God's truth.
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I love going to the local market and seeing friends that I grew up with... and having conversations. I love the community of Bayonne.
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'Wild at Heart' simply came out of my journey as a man and then my work with men.
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I think it's a problem that we don't have more companies like Facebook. It shouldn't be the only company that's doing this well.
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I have a problem about being nearly sixty: I keep waking up in the morning and thinking I'm thirty-one.
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Either God is alive, in which case he'll deal with us as he sees fit. Or he is dead, in which case he was never alive, it being unlikely that he died of old age.
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No society can change the nature of existence. We can't prevent suffering. This pain and that pain, yes, but not Pain. A society can only relieve social suffering, unnecessary suffering. The rest remains. The root, the reality.
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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt to happen when these are abandoned, of race, but of age.
