Auberon Waugh Quotes
Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
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Hip-hop is rich in musical allusion. It takes something that already existed, respects it, and reuses it.
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I knew that for this movie to work it had to be very hot and very real, and it wasn't going to be a case of doing it Hollywood all covered with a nice little sheet.
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For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
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I came from nothing really to something; I came from the gutter to making the gutters.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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Remember this: classics never make a comeback. They wait for that perfect moment to take the spotlight from overdone, tired trends.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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That's one of the things that I've loved about 'Spider-Man' and Marvel in general. The characters all have dimension.
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Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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I like to do my own make-up.
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I have a record I love, 'Limbo,' which is very catchy.
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I do hope the success of 'Ms. Marvel' will open doors for other characters and other creators.
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All that a critic, as critic, can give poets is the deadly encouragement that never ceases to remind them of how heavy their inheritance is.
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I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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How do we get more politicians to move from 'fixing' the system to reforming the system? The obvious answer is to either improve the quality of public services or reduce the public's dependence on them. Both approaches are necessary.
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The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
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You have to be looking for a job to get unemployment benefits. If you stop looking for work, you are no longer eligible to receive benefits.
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Obedience is the only reality. It is faith visible, faith acting, and faith manifest. It is the test of real discipleship among the Lord's people.
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Sometimes I hate writing songs. Because it hurts sometimes. I'm very emotional.
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The sky above the port was the color of television, tuned to a dead station.
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Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.
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Politics, as I never tire of saying, is for social and emotional misfits, handicapped folk, those with a grudge. The purpose of politics is to help them overcome these feelings of inferiority and compensate for their personal inadequacies in the pursuit of power.
