W. S. Merwin Quotes
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Because I'm so hands on here at work and always looking at fabrics you have to be mobile and as comfortable as possible.
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Everybody is looking for an election where they can do something and participate.
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I think how Chicago plays a role in my life - it had such a role in my youth and the decisions that I made as a kid and formulated who I am as an artist early on.
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I been through some things but I worked hard to get to where I'm at.
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We show our faces to demand that politicians making promises stick to those promises. We show our faces to ensure that the youth of today will flourish tomorrow.
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I think your teenage years define your musical roots forever. You're always looking for a theme for your high school years.
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I think I don't sing as hard as I used to sing. I used to kind of hit the accelerator a lot back in my youth, but now it's just being able to control it, and not work it so hard and use more of an emotional or sub textual kind of approach to singing.
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We are looking for rebuilding Hungarian defence Industry with India's participation.
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I definitely don't want to do drama. I'm not looking to branch out into that world.
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When I go to a country, I go to flea markets, antique stores. I am always looking for something.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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When we started looking at the bigger television ecosystem, you see that there's not that many serialized TV shows being made for TV. The economics are lousy: They don't sell into syndication well; they're expensive to produce.
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Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.
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The same is the case with those opinions of man to which he has been accustomed from his youth; he likes them, defends them, and shuns the opposite views.
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The male muse is an unaccountably rare thing in art. Where does that leave female artists looking for inspiration?
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The road to the sacred leads through the secular.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.
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Either do not attempt at all, or go through with it.
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I am one of those who like to stay late at the cafe," the older waiter said. "With all those who do not want to go to bed. With all those who need a light for the night." "I want to go home and into bed." "We are of two different kinds," the older waiter said. He was now dressed to go home. "It is not only a question of youth and confidence although those things are very beautiful. Each night. I am reluctant to close up because there may be someone who needs the cafe.
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I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.
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The invention of the concept of sustainable human development and that of so-called human security, as opposed to territorial security of nation- states, and its promotion by the UN is in clear contradiction to all that we, the Group of 77, and the UN Charter itself consider inalienable, namely national sovereignty and security.
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I lived long enough in a society where freedom of speech was nonexistent, and I know what kind of misery that creates - starting with the fact that life becomes very boring for people who just try to survive, and are quiet, and try not to buck the system. And, of course, it can be devastating for people who try to speak against it.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
