Kenneth Koch Quotes
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There have been 111 Justices in the Supreme Court of the United States. Only three have been women. If she is confirmed, Solicitor General Kagan will bring the Supreme Court to an historical high-water mark, with three women concurrently serving as Justices.
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I still have mixed feelings about what growing up is - this thing that happens to everyone, so I've heard.
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I joined NOW on an issue of pay.
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I see the demographics increasing, and by that I mean the notion of social acceptance is growing, not decreasing; I think the notion of fiscal responsibility is growing, not decreasing. And Republicans seem to be moving further away from those two categories than closer.
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Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.
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The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
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I think Robert Plant is the quintessential frontman - just the way he moves. His voice is superhuman.
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When you have teachers saying, 'I don't have enough time for hands-on activities,' we need to rethink the way we do education.
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The fact is most computer roleplaying games that offer a zillion highly specialized skills end up with nine-tenths of a zillion skills that every player quickly realizes aren't worth the experience points to buy.
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There were songs I would write about breaking up with somebody before I broke up with them, months and months before I broke up with them.
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My mom, she's a breast cancer survivor and because of that I had started getting mammograms once a year, starting at age 30.
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Opening new stores outside of Japan is important, but training our employees is even more important.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I want to go back to the Pantanal in Brazil. I've never been to sub-Saharan Africa. I'd like to take my Caravan over there and do a flying safari. I've never flown to Alaska.
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I do love cars.
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He deserved to die except that nothing deserves death.
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The motto of his Robinson Jeffers’s work is 'More! More!'-but as Tolstoy says, 'A wee bit omitted, overemphasized, or exaggerated in poetry, and there is no contagion'; and Frost, bearing him out, says magnificently: 'A very little of anything goes a long way in a work of art.'
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Wagon is the bread-earning horse of the Railways. Load it adequately. Make it run and don't stable it.
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Sadly, there is a fine line between patriotism and paranoia.
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Freeing oneself from words is liberation.
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... Be they wynners or loosers, … beggers should be no choosers.
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Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.
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Sometimes writing has to be forced. In starting out, the shape and timbre and texture of what is to come is an uncertain chimera shimmering from behind a veil. You must not wait, loiter, dilly-dally. You must force your way painfully through.
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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
