W. H. Davies Quotes
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A dead end street is a good place to turn around.
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I just want to do my best, to be as close to the top as I can, and to get the maximum out of the car.
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Are you used to entertaining everyone with your tales of drama and conflict? Do you get attention and feel important every time you complain about how awful this man is? Stop settling for attention for the negative stuff in your life.
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Music is such a part of my soul.
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I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
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I got the role I loved the most at a point in my career when most women are being phased out.
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When a town doesn't have a book store, it is like something is missing, and unfortunately, fewer and fewer have them.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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I think art comes from some sense of discomfort with the world, some sense of not quite fitting with it.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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Love stories should be relatable.
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I played football. I wrestled. Those were team sports and I played for the school. When I was younger, I played kick the can and stuff like that. I loved that.
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Books and harlots have their quarrels in public.
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You have a dramatic portion of your television program and you treat it dramatically, and then you have a comedic portion of your program, and you treat it differently. Why do you change who are between the two pieces? You're the same person. Just go.
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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.
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I am one of the graduates of the William Morris famous, famous mail room from the '60s.
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Apparently, despite my awareness of its pejorative connotation, procrastinating is something I fall victim to quite frequently. I'm not proud of it; I'm just being honest.
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How poet and public stared at each other with righteous indignation, till the poet said, 'Since you won’t read me, I’ll make sure you can’t' - is one of the most complicated and interesting of stories.
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Socrates gave no diplomas or degrees, and would have subjected any disciple who demanded one to a disconcerting catechism on the nature of true knowledge.
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Westminster Abbey is nature crystallized into a conventional form by man, with his sorrows, his joys, his failures, and his seeking for the Great Spirit. It is a frozen requiem, with a nation's prayer ever in dumb music ascending.
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The world is really figuring BSE out, and that's positive.
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It was easy to be the bad guy throughout.
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If the philosophy of Christianity were lived, wars would cease, unhappiness would cease, economic problems would be solved, poverty would be wiped from the face of the earth, and man's inhumanity to man would be transmuted into a spirit of mutual helpfulness.
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From my own kind I only learnHow foolish comfort is
