W. H. Auden Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.
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I'm 43. I'm not ready to sit down in a chair with my name on it yet.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I think Obama is right when he talks about the rule of law as a cornerstone of what the United States should stand for. That can encompass our elected officials' adherence to law and our country's return to the Geneva Conventions.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.
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Each generation seems to invent its own reasons for war.
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If a film is a huge hit, you do think properly before choosing your next projects.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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My mother's nickname for me is 'Positive Patrick.' I like to live up to that title.
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Accept it or not, every star, actor, and director wants to work on larger-than-life films.
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The whole story of the comfort women, the system of forced sexual slavery, the medical experiments of Unit 731, is not something that is in the US psyche. That is changing because many books are coming out.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
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I don't remember my first two marriages... the details are very sketchy.
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My stories are not Christianized at all. I don't even have any Christians in my stories. What they are, are stories about ordinary people going through extraordinary circumstances in which I'm exploring truth. How light overcomes darkness in a way that's unmistakable to anyone who has any kind of faith.
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I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
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I'm an atheist, I always thought, 'This is it.' If there is going to be a heaven, it should be on earth. I feel much happier than most people. I'm fairly stoic about death, but I'm not keen on dying if it's going to be long and protracted. I don't have dark nights of the soul, except occasionally. I'm such a little busy bee.
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General ideas are no proof of the strength, but rather of the insufficiency of the human intellect.
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Everyone of you has a health that is unique and totally different from everybody else. Completely! Because we... are all like snowflakes.
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If a filmmaker and I don't get along, it's four weeks of your life, so, whatever. With TV, it's six years.
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When you start out in the industry and things are tough, and you're not really making money, you question yourself: should I give up?
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To ask the hard question is simple, The simple act of the confused will.
