C. Day Lewis Quotes
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I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.
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What Shakespeare was able to do in English he would certainly not have done in French.
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I always thought my best album was 'Trouble in Paradise.' I was the happiest with that one.
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The school is the servant of the workshop and will one day be absorbed in it. Therefore there will be no teachers or pupils in the Bauhaus but masters, journeymen, and apprentices.
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You wouldn't recognize me from one project to the next.
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I like a man who's good, but not too good - for the good die young, and I hate a dead one.
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As an astronaut, you have a very defined set of tasks to do. Those tasks may require you to work 60, 70 or 80 hours a week.
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There are certain things that can be asked that get me excited. It's never a thing where I think I'm too good, I'm just the type of person who likes to be enlightened. I don't like to go through the motions.
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Capitalism and power politics have made our generation creatively sluggish, and our vital art is mired in a broad bourgeois philistinism.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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I do think that same gender partners should be able to be married. Why not? If you share a life together than who in the world should have anything to say about it?
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I'm excited about it, thrilled with the success thus far.
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I'm not sought after. I never get enough work. It's the history of my career. There just isn't anything to turn down, let me put it that way.
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Until I was eighteen, I did not know that you could study fashion design or art. I really didn't know. I already had my nose in the art world; I was already looking at things, but I didn't really get it that you could study that because my school was a very different environment.
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When anything goes, it's women who lose.
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That really is my trademark. Day to day, week in, week out. If something happens and the crowd roars, I shut up.
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It can never be satisfied, the mind, never.
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My friends have to remind me that it's OK to own the fact that you're good at something. I think it'll just come with getting older.
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It's really important to remember that most people in the public eye are human for a start and a lot of things that you read in the media get slightly misconstrued and manipulated.
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Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the signs correctly. Its just their imagination. Other people write about prophecy in the name of the Maya. They say that the world will end in December 2012. The Mayan elders are angry with this. The world will not end. It will be transformed.
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I'm a poet. I distrust anything that starts with a capital letter and ends with a full stop because people don't think in full, clear sentences.
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Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.
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An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.
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A poet is not a public figure. A poet should be read and not seen.
