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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Back in '93 I saw my first UFC fight and just became enamored by it then.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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If I ever have to stop taking the subway, I'm gonna have a heart attack.
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I was about to move out of my apartment because I was so broke. I'd sort of made a pact with myself that I wouldn't take a job unless it was interesting to me, and I became broke very fast.
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The self-talk of the ego-mind is so busy describing what is happening, judging whether it is good or bad for us, and telling us what we should think and do, that there is little opportunity for our inner knowing to be heard. Instead we remain attached to our assumptions, dreaming of the fulfillment we believe they will bring.
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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.
