W. H. Davies Quotes
It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
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There are so many songs in my heart and in my brain. I wake up at 2 in the morning, and I have to get up and sing them. There are so many of them, it's ridiculous.
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Leaders who master emotions can rob us of our capacities to reason. If their values are out of step with our own, the results can be devastating.
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I try and take lots of vitamins and I don't drink. I do smoke, though, I'd be insufferable if I didn't smoke, you'd have to push me off a balcony I'd be so boring.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I always struggle auditioning, actually, because I'm so obsessed with era-appropriate clothing.
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I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
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I once tried standing up on my toes to see far out in the distance, but I found that I could see much farther by climbing to a high place.
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And it's one thing to give people freedom and something else to deny the rights of Christians to assert their faith in order to keep Hindus from feeling upset.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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All writers are the same - they forget a thousand good reviews and remember one bad one.
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I was afraid I would see someone from my past who thought I was this big athlete, and then I end up being just normal.
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My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.
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It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.
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An actor has to embody a role.
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Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
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I don't work out and be healthy and want a strong body because I want to look good in a bikini. I do all of those things for me and for my health. I'm not going on the cover of 'Maxim' and 'FHM' because that's not me.
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But the beginning of things, of a world especially, is necessarily vague, tangled, chaotic, and exceedingly disturbing. How few of us ever emerge from such beginning! How many souls perish in its tumult!
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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You can not only do great things for an urban core by moving your employee base there, you're also going to be a better business.
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I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
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The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight.
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Stopping crime before it occurs is the most effective crime fighting tool of all.
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One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.
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It has always been a wonder to me where my conversational power has gone: at the present time, I cannot impress the most ordinary men.
