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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We danced our youth in a dreamed of city, Venice, paradise, proud and pretty, We lived for love and lust and beauty, Pleasure then our only duty. Floating them twixt heaven and Earth And drank on plenties blessed mirth We thought ourselves eternal then, Our glory sealed by God’s own pen. But paradise, we found is always frail, Against man’s fear will always fail.
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I have no way of knowing what you are going to feel when you look at one of my paintings; I only know what I feel.
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Music to me was never something that I could listen to while reading a book. Especially when I was studying music, if I was going to listen to music, I was going to put on the headphones or crank the stereo, and by God, I was going to sit there and just listen to music. I wasn't going to talk on the phone and multitask, which I can't do anyway.
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Better a bad excuse, than none at all.
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We had all remained good friends, but musically Hillel felt he was growing in their direction and they were having more success than What Is This.
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Through all of youth I was looking for you without knowing what I was looking for
