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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Win or lose today I am proud of the way my boys have played in the tournament.
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Carrying on with the conversation like a woman when the bill comes...
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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
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I'm going to make myself seem more mysterious because I'm really not so mysterious. Or, if I am, it's because everybody is a mystery. Now that I'm older, at least I can be more amused by what people said.
Nastassja Kinski -
Night, in which everything was lost, went reaching out, beyond stars and sun. Stars and sun, a few bright grains, went spiraling round for terror, and holding each other in embrace, there in a darkness that outpassed them all, and left them tiny and daunted. So much, and himself, infinitesimal, at the core of nothingness, and yet not nothing.
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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.
