Auberon Waugh Quotes
You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
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The true Christian is called to be a soldier and must behave as such from the day of his conversion to the day of his death. He is not meant to live a life of religious ease, indolence and security. He must never imagine for a moment that he can sleep and doze along the way to heaven, like one traveling in an easy carriage.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.
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Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
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Once a Cubs fan, always a Cubs fan.
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I am not one of these guys who works job after job after job.
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When I look at acting careers that I really admire, I see that it's been a precise decision-making process for these people. They make decisions based on what they love, and they do only the things that they are passionate about. They play only characters that they can't stop thinking about.
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I am a certified yoga teacher and I love to cycle and swim.
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We - we spend a lot of time, scholarly time, thinking about love and sex, but very little about the - the kind of joy that can take over a crowd of people or a group of people, in festivity, in ecstatic ritual of some kind, in celebration.
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But, look, Washington is a town that creates myths for its own existence and its own amusement, and I was a subject of myth, sort of like Grendel in Beowulf - you know, not seen very often but often talked about.
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I didn't develop or build synths. I had my technicians modify them for my live stage performances.
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When we set out our original program from the beginning, obviously our markets were pretty limited, and we were thinking about them mostly as U.S. shows, and they would travel like other U.S. shows have.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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I have learned not to feed the trolls. I just don't respond.
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I'm very involved with all the executives at Televisa.
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I contend, most seriously, that there is a real need for a good, thick, complete-as-possible dictionary of 'What People Used to Call Things.'
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When you begin to think about the past, you realize how much of it is lost to us.
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I spent ten years being told there was no way I was going to have a career because I was so effeminate.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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I've never missed a gig yet. Music makes people happy, and that's why I go on doing it - I like to see everybody smile.
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You learn emotional experiences as much as you learn cognitive experiences, except that they are more unconscious. Sometimes one represses the cognitive component of it, but it's often more difficult to repress the emotional component.
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Where I come from, a lot of people didn't have money, but they didn't have gangs or drugs either.
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You should tell the truth as often as you can, but in such a way as people don't believe you or think that you're being funny.
