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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She missed him the days when some pretext served to take him away from her, just as one misses the sun on a cloudy day without having thought much about the sun when it was shining.
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I don't think balance is something you get from someone else; it's something women have to find from within. For me, finding balance is still a work in progress.
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A sage is skilled at helping people without excluding anyone.
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I dream of a peaceful world. Music is the best means I have to work on that dream. Each time I have the opportunity to play, it is another chance to tell the truth. Life on the planet has come down to such an acute degree of ADD it is terrifying. We are constantly being bombarded from all directions with information - most of it useless that serves to bifurcate the mind. I am afraid that people are going to go from birth to death and never know they were here or why they were here.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
