W. H. Davies Quotes
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Where are the gains for religious freedom and human rights to justify all the bombings, invasions and wars we have conducted in the lands from Libya to Pakistan - to justify the losses we have endured and the death and suffering we have inflicted?
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I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
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You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'
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All truly historical peoples have an idea they must realize, and when they have sufficiently exploited it at home, they export it, in a certain way, by war; they make it tour the world.
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I'm from New York, so I'm not a big driver.
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I can play a bunch of instruments but drums? My brother's a drummer and I've always been jealous that he's such a good drummer. I always try to play but it's always kinda just bashing. I can keep time but no one really wants to hear me play drums.
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I was a big fan of Indiana Jones; then I realized he was kind of a fake hero. The real heroes are the people who work hard and do their stuff right, like firefighters and policemen.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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You're going to have some ups and downs, so you have to prepare yourself to be ready. Those down moments come.
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One of the rules of the road is that if you want to create the sense of silence, it frequently has more pungency if you include the tiniest of sounds. By manipulating what you hear and how you hear it and what other things you don't hear, you can not only help tell the story, you can help the audience get into the mind of the character.
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Democracies can't handle austerity measures very well.
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In the hands of a passive-aggressive person who wants to abdicate responsibility for things, texting is a great tool. You can really go nuts.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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Lincoln emancipated nobody. The man freed not a single slave.
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Koranic teaching still insists that the sun moves around the earth. How can we advance when they teach things like that?
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Time is the wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
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I think my parents see my life now as very conservative.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
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Go you and, with such glorious hues,Live with proud peacocks in green parks.
