Kenneth Rexroth Quotes
With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.
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I voted for Barack Obama.
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People just decided I was an R&B artist because I'm black.
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Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
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There were a couple of things in the intervention that made me know I needed help. One was a letter from my daughter saying that she was ashamed she had the same last name as I did, which will shock you a little bit.
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It is most regrettable that nuclear energy is being harnessed for making nuclear weapons.
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I really don't have a type. I never had a type. If I could put them all together, it's, like, the most different grouping. So I love when guys are funny. I love guys that are funny and goofy and over the top. And you know, I really like personality.
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Desire creates its own object.
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A culture without mythology is not really a civilisation.
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When you're young and you're in love and it doesn't work out - it hurts.
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Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.
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I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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If you learn from defeat, you haven't really lost.
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That's what I love about songwriting - that you can write something about your own experiences and think it's completely specific to you, and then people can take away a completely different meaning for themselves. I really love that. I think you've been successful at writing a song when it has a larger life than yourself.
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I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
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A poet can write about a man slaying a dragon, but not about a man pushing a button that releases a bomb.
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Most of the competition was into bulk popcorn because of the major increases in the Drive-In Theatre Outlets.
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Bahrain is very dear to me.
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With every movie, I try to do something different, whether it's action, comedy or drama.
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I create enclosed spaces mainly by means of thick concrete walls. The primary reason is to create a place for the individual, a zone for oneself within society. When the external factors of a city's environment require the wall to be without openings, the interior must be especially full and satisfying.
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You have to be a friend to yourself. You know, 'cause if you're not a friend to yourself, you're an enemy to yourself and if someone's a friend of everybody they are an enemy to themselves.
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I hate to say it, but the older you get, you really do have to cut down on the amount you eat. Less food and less portions.
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Holmes is the hardest part I have ever played - harder than Hamlet or Macbeth. Holmes has become the dark side of the moon for me. He is moody and solitary and underneath I am really sociable and gregarious. It has all got too dangerous.
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With my own group I like to keep it loose. They have to counter rather than go with me. When they stop I like to be moving.
