W. H. Davies Quotes
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We need to have Turkey respect democracy, human rights, and fundamental freedoms.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I'm a breakfast type of guy. Don't get me wrong. I can cook, I'm kinda nice on the burner, but I enjoy making breakfast. I do it all... Scrambled eggs... French toast... Pancakes... Breakfast is my thing.
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Funny is as funny does, and funny puts on a walrus mask and slowly gyrates in a mall food court. I laugh at absurdity hardest, then stories, then observations, then bearded men on roller skates.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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I believe the answers to most problems that confront us around the world can and should be approached by engaging both friend and foe in dialogue. No, I don't naively think that dialogue always works, but I believe we should avoid the rigidity of saying that dialogue never works.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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Waiting for me in Stockholm will be a personal assistant - Katrina from the Ministry for Foreign Affairs - as well the secretary of the Swedish Academy. They'll help us with our things and take us to our hotel. From the moment I arrive, I'll always be together with the other two laureates.
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We don't think that we are in a quarrel with anybody. We may have a difference of opinion, but we'll not allow such differences of opinion to grow into a problem that stands in the way of reconstructing the country and regaining the democratic path.
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It took me a long time to film the plastic bag, and then I had to get the cut of the scene right. But if you find it as beautiful as the character does, then suddenly it becomes a different movie, and so did he as a character.
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Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
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May God protect me from gloomy saints.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.
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It's an individual sport; you want to do well for yourself.
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The only questions that really matter are the ones you ask yourself.
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In cartoons, in movies, time passes differently. There are flashbacks and flashfowards.
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Everyone says romance goes flying out the window when you've been together for an X amount of time. I think it's all up to you.
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That's one thing the musicians don't remember: you don't choose your demographic - they choose you.
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The goal of the Head Start program is to give at-risk children all across our Nation a fair chance at succeeding in the educational system.
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I am always wandering around in enigmas. There are young people who constantly come to tell me: you, too, are making Op Art. I haven't the slightest idea what that is, Op Art. I've been doing this work for thirty years now.
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History is cyclical, and it would be foolhardy to assume that the culture wars will never return.
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The external appearance of any construction projects that are created during the time of the National Socialist Reich must take on the sensibility of our time.
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What sweet, what happy days had I,When dreams made Time Eternity!
