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'm very blessed that I have such a supportive wife who is secure with letting me embarrass myself.
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Nothing would prove more disastrous to our ideas, we contended, than to neglect the effect of the internal upon the external, of the psychological motives and needs upon existing institutions. (p. 402)
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You cannot make women contented with cooking and cleaning and you need not try.
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The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
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These men both publicly and privately have done so much for me. Without Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick I would be living in a little motel just around the corner here, trying to make ends meet.
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Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.
