W. H. Auden Quotes
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.W. H. Auden
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I've been searching for ways to heal myself, and I've found that kindness is the best way.
Lady Gaga -
I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
Viggo Mortensen -
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity.
Vernor Vinge -
Vox populi vox dei: the voice of the people is the voice of God. The slogan was useful for those who first attempted to substitute the people for God as the source of political authority. Their attempt was ultimately so successful that God no longer seems to be needed in government.
Edmund Morgan -
I have two main bass guitars, and my main bass is a four-string 1964 Fender Jazz, and I've named it Justine.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner -
Stories are like that. Like cities, they are built on the stones and bones of the past.
Kate Forsyth
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
Carlos Ghosn -
Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.
Hamid Karzai -
It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
Parker Posey -
Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
Rachel Sklar -
I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
Malcolm Gladwell -
It's not like I have the most perfect body in the world. I'm a normal girl.
Camilla Luddington
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The original 'Hobbit' was never intended to have a sequel - Bilbo 'remained very happy to the end of his days and those were extraordinarily long': a sentence I find an almost insuperable obstacle to a satisfactory link.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
Patrick Stewart -
I didn't comment on any actress, and I have never compared myself with any senior actresses. Moreover, I have said many times that I have learnt a lot from my seniors. Don't spread rumours and false news about me.
Rakul Preet Singh -
There are some days when I think I'm going to die from an overdose of satisfaction.
Salvador Dali -
I just don't let music genres define me.
Bebe Rexha -
When I give I give myself.
Walt Whitman
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I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely.
Maya Angelou -
So WE are to blame for the 'bad blood' with Russia. Not what Putin has done in Ukraine, in Syria, in the UK, at home, or with respect to our elections. Amazing.
Bill Kristol -
I think about my parents all the time, especially on Sunday when I'm at Mass. My mother always said, 'We do not pray to win elections. We pray for people's health, we pray that God's will be done, we pray that we do our best. But we do not pray to win elections.'
Nancy Pelosi -
Michael Moore, whether you like him or hate him, has done something very important.
John Sayles -
For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.
George Washington -
I and the public know What all schoolchildren learn, Those to whom evil is done Do evil in return.
W. H. Auden