Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.
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I'm not as goal obsessed as I am process obsessed.
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The rights of copyright holders need to be protected, but some draconian remedies that have been suggested would create more problems than they would solve.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
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I am prepared to do whatever I can do and whatever is reasonable to make sure that it is Hillary who makes it to the White House and not Trump.
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'Yela' represents hunger, life, light, fire, power. 'Wolf' speaks to my fighting spirit. The soul I put in my music.
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Yes, I did feel a special responsibility to be the first American woman in space.
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I get more fulfilment from being a father than I do from being an actor.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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I have cut four albums so far, and all of them have been trendsetters and commercially successful. I believe that once you start taking art in commercial terms, it ceases to be art.
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By 1946, I knew Detroit was the best hockey city in the Original Six.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Thankfully, it became clear to me that when I compete, I lose my connection to the passion I have for my work.
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Men and women are immigrants in each other's worlds.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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People aren't interested in others controlling what they can do or read or see in the privacy of their own homes.
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Religious freedom is already protected in the United States. It's in our Constitution. It's in most state constitutions.
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I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.
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The days when the words 'Hollywood actor' framed Ronald Reagan like bunny fingers as an ID tag and an implied insult seem far-off and quaint: nearly everybody in politics - candidate, consultant, pundit, and Tea Party crowd extra alike - is an actor now, a shameless ham in a hoked-up reality series that never stops.
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I am in favor of preserving the French habit of kissing the hands of ladies. After all one must start somewhere.
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Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters.
