W. H. Auden Quotes
A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
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Trump wants to build a wall at the border of Mexico, while Clinton wants to tear down all walls.
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I don't think nostalgia has to be negative.
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I was a scapegoat. The media had to put responsibility on somebody, and I was chosen. They felt free to say that because someone was thin they were anorexic, which is ridiculous.
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My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, 'I wish I could do that.'
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I don't get acting jobs because of my looks.
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Questions structure and, so, to some extent predetermine answers.
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I always enjoyed myself a lot in pre-school.
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We ignore slow environmental changes unless they are crisis-driven, such as hurricanes in Florida.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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No one wants to see a person on TV who's super-ultra-cool. That's Superman, that's a thing of the past. Heroes are now flawed, and have terrible tempers, you know? They're real people.
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I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.
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I love children. I just don't know if I'm ready to have kids. I feel like I have more time. Kids are cute, you know? They need a lot of help - that's the thing.
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Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.
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No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.
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I try not to push myself too hard, but I also need to perform and earn the results.
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I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.
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It's easy not to bribe. But it's not so easy to keep a business running at the same time.
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Loss of hope rather than loss of life is what decides the issues of war. But helplessness induces hopelessness.
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No one knows what an amazing spirit she was. She wasn't only a mother; she was a best friend.
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A lot of people thought of me as a threat to Western civilization.
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I wish every woman would love herself and embrace what she was given naturally.
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There are a lot of books about the passing of the English aristocracy, but the vast majority of Long Islanders don't understand their own backyard. It's a private preserve.
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Racism is not dead, but it is on life support -- kept alive by politicians, race hustlers and people who get a sense of superiority by denouncing others as 'racists'
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A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.
