W. H. Davies Quotes
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No matter how much money I make, no matter how many hit songs. I still perform like a street performer.
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Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
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If there's a golf course in heaven, I hope it's like Augusta National. I just don't want an early tee time.
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As a filmmaker, I really want to utilize the tools to carry the voice - my voice, and the voice of the characters.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I don't think the space station will ever do anything for exploration. Putting people up there for a year or more is the only way you will get anywhere near the exploration concept.
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I really connect to strong feminist writers that make their ideas accessible for the rest of the world.
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A chicken grows up in a little less time than an ostrich. An ostrich takes a whole year. A chicken takes a few months.
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I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.
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The Olympics have their own unique atmosphere and energy. People might say it's just the same as any other competition, but don't kid yourself. There's a hunger for victory.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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I don't think there's anything worse than your parents being alive and telling you to go give them some money and just act like they're dead.
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I never consciously got into comedy. It was sort of one of those things where I was a theater student, I was acting, I was doing comedy, I was doing dramatic stuff, so it's been something that I've always done and enjoyed doing and had an instinct to be relatively good at.
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
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My feeling is that maintaining financial independence is also a healthy way to keep my feet on the ground.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I used to say that I didn't want anything to do with e-mail. It seemed really impersonal, complicated and weird. I had no idea what an amazing way it is to reach people.
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My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.
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I don't make big grand gestures, generally.
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Men believe themselves to be free, simply because they are conscious of their actions, and unconscious of the causes whereby those actions are determined.
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With me it is exceptionally true that the Presidency is no bed of roses.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
