Kenneth Koch Quotes
When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
Quotes to Explore
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'Jurassic Park' and 'Star Wars' shoved me into loving sci-fi and film in general when I was a barely coherent 3-year-old. And 'Lord of the Rings' took me to another planet entirely. Before that series, I knew I loved writing, but after, I knew that I had to write.
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I'd assumed that a deal was a deal when Princeton admitted me, but I was wrong. The price of getting in - to the university itself, and to the great world it promised to open up - was an endless dunning for nebulous services that weren't included in the initial quote.
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I'm not pessimistic about much of anything.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I do not accept the right of big powers to change governments as and when it affects their interests.
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I do think people are definitely sick of the Kardashians.
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Nothing heightens chaos more than a berserk wild animal right in the middle.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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The funny thing is I'm not bothered or sad about being on my own - after all I've never had a husband.
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I think that it helps that I have acted. That said, it doesn't mean you're going to be a good director.
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I... now see a rare opportunity to push across the goal line much of the unfinished business of America: investing in our infrastructure and workers, universal healthcare, comprehensive immigration reform and scrubbing a tax code that's out of shape and behind the times.
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The requirements for our evolution have changed. Survival is no longer sufficient. Our evolution now requires us to develop spiritually - to become emotionally aware and make responsible choices. It requires us to align ourselves with the values of the soul - harmony, cooperation, sharing, and reverence for life.
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When a child asks you something, answer him, for goodness' sake. But don't make a production of it. Children are children, but they can spot an evasion quicker than adults, an evasion simply muddles 'em.
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Capitalism is an art form.
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A proud man is always looking down on things and people: and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you.
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So don't be fooled, so don't get lied to Love was always cruel And don't act strange, don't be a stranger It happened to me, now it's happening to you But if you'd take that train underwater Then we could talk it through
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We shall have to learn again to be one nation, or one day we shall be no nation.
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I run in London, in San Francisco - any city that's got a waterfront or park.
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Our rate moves will have an impact on the economy in 2013. Whether we raise or lower rates depends on how the economic situation develops.
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Bush promised a foreign policy of humility and a domestic policy of compassion. He has given us a foreign policy of arrogance and a domestic policy that is cynical, myopic and cruel.
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I think there was, and there is, a real Commonwealth culture. It's different. America doesn't really feel to be a part of that.
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Can you imagine being Leonardo Da Vinci in the 1400s trying to describe his ideas for machines that would allow humans to fly to the average person of his time? This is hundreds of years before the invention of electricity, the internal combustion engine, and many other things we take for granted today.
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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot of clicking shut!
