Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
You can’t become a saint by taking dope, stealing your friends’ typewriters, giving girls chancres, not supporting your wife and children, and then reading St. John of the Cross. All of that, when it’s happened before, has typified the collapse of civilization … and today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim.
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I believe in giving back.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.
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We need to think about how we teach working-class children about not just hard skills, like reading and mathematics, but also soft skills, like conflict resolution and financial management.
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I've been snowboarding my whole life. My wife's really good, and I just try to keep up with her.
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We are all Adam's children - it's just the skin that makes all the difference.
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We tried every single way of giving birth. It didn't work. I wasn't too crazy about having to do a C-section and take all the drugs. Finally, I just had to be like, 'Let it go.'
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Writing is a solitary journey, so I am always excited to go out on book tour and meet readers one-on-one.
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I tried to go out for theater or theater arts, but I was too scared or too intimidated. But I had a lot of friends on the cross country team that had great senses of humor.
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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
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I want my children to know that we often become resilient for others.
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In other times, I could stand here and give this kind of exposition on the beliefs of the Democratic Party and that would be enough. But today that is not enough. People want more.
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For me, what's crazy is CRM has really evolved, and keeps evolving.
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There are lots of women I look up to, but mentors are someone you talk to and not just admire. A lot of my friends that I trust are my mentors.
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There's no question that consumers are looking for value today.
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Their eagerness for the big-band music and their ability to grasp the essence of it made me realize that today's generation has not been properly exposed to the big-band sound.
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Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.
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A feel-good style can be a symptom of unawareness or lack of caring.
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But there is that about well-intentioned advice that has the opposite effect of the one intended, and causes a Spanish fly of perversity to enter into the hitherto passive soul.
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The reason I don't carry a mobile phone is I don't want people to know where I am!
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Fantasy is sort of a blank slate that everybody can project their own culture onto. Everybody can read it in their own way.
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We've been programmed, from the time that we were very, very little, about what we can't do - about what is impossible.
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You can’t become a saint by taking dope, stealing your friends’ typewriters, giving girls chancres, not supporting your wife and children, and then reading St. John of the Cross. All of that, when it’s happened before, has typified the collapse of civilization … and today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim.
