Kenneth Koch Quotes
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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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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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When there are such lands there should be profitable things without number.
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Progress lies not in enhancing what is, but in advancing toward what will be.
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There is nothing so clever as people you agree with.
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Citizens’ right to document cruelty to animals - wherever it occurs - is crucial in helping local, state and federal officials enforce anti-cruelty laws. Authorities can’t be everywhere at once, and funding for enforcement of anti-cruelty laws is sorely lacking in most places. What we need are more cameras on factory farms, not fewer.
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Literature is idiosyncratic arrangements in horizontal lines in only twenty-six symbols, ten arabic numbers, and about eight punctuation marks.
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The present moment, if you think about it, is the only time there is. No matter what time it is, it is always NOW!
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You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy, you're finished as a writer.
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I'm a writer who likes to be influenced.
