W. H. Davies Quotes
When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
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Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
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For my brothers it was easy to think about the future. They can be anything they want. But for me it was hard and for that reason I wanted to become educated and empower myself with knowledge.
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Please know that being 80 is not a scary thing. When you're 80, your life is much freer.
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The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
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When you see the audiences and the smiling faces at the shows it really makes up for the work that you put in. I have a job I really love so whatever hecticness comes up - I'll just deal with it.
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I believed or thought I was disoriented and the victim of a bizarre dream and I believe I paced in and out of the room and possibly into one of the other rooms. I may have re-examined her, finally believing that this was true.
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In a meat-eating world, wearing leather for shoes and clothes and even handbags, the discussion of fur is childish.
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The surface is all you get of me.
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Values are more important than money.
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If I present a boring personal life to my readers, it's going to be harder for them to think of my novels as thrilling.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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I have my life on a track that I want it on, and I don't want to get off.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.
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People come up to me in bars and on street corners and they say to me, 'Hey, Paulsen, have you got any change?'
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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I guess some people are brilliant enough to be brilliant on their own and never doubt anything and come up with fabulous things. But I think it's good to get into arguments with people and have them say, 'That sucks' or 'You're crazy' or 'That's cheesy' or 'What do you think of this?'
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Few states, they have the international borders, state borders; in India, there is so much diversity in system. Unity in diversity is our system, so therefore, you cannot take for granted, whatever you do.
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My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.
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No book includes the entire world. It's limited. And so it doesn't seem like an aesthetic compromise to have to do that. There's so much other material to write about.
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Men get it. I think us men need you women to help us survive.
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When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
