Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
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What I look at with each vote is that priority of whether it's good for the middle class or not.
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I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content.
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I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
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Our party never tolerated those who use violence for political ends. Our leaders lost their lives standing against terrorism.
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A lot of West Virginia is untouched. It doesn't have as many strip malls, it has these old towns that feel like it used to be how it looked. Charleston has this river that runs through it, and it's really beautiful.
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I win by submissions, knockouts. There's guys ranked above me, but no one's interested in seeing them fight. They want to see me fight.
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In the South, there was absence of any leadership corresponding in breadth and courage to that of Abraham Lincoln.
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What hasn't Barbie been? I don't think I can create an occupation that she has not done yet.
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I can't go into a mob scene and sense the mood and the attitude of the crowd. I can't conduct man-on-the-street interviews or even get reactions that I can be sure are honest, because they know who I am.
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I'm into the whole American and New York vibe, not just because that's what's going on around me but because of the fit. A lot of guys are into the European cut, but I can't really pull that off with my body type - I'm tall and have big legs.
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It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
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Any powerful technology can be abused.
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When I was 5, I wore a tie, and I wanted to change my name to Larry, which probably tipped my parents off that I was gay.
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We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once.
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I have been absolutely hag-ridden with ambition. If I could wish to have anything in the world it would be to be free of ambition.
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There's a lionfish cookbook put out by the Reef Environmental Educational Foundation, and it tells you how to catch them, how to clean them.
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Experience has taught me, when I am shaving of a morning, to keep watch over my thoughts, because, if a line of poetry strays into my memory, my skin bristles so that the razor ceases to act.
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It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
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I always knew that if I was ever going to perform something that I wrote in front of an audience, I was going to do the thing I most like to experience as an audience member, which is to be tricked.
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Good artists copy, great artists steal.
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I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.
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You learn nothing if you carry with you a journalistic system of values, which is invented to save reporters from experience.
