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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My father, for his part, was not a man to begrudge anyone a divergent opinion; he'd have been fine if I had written some articles disagreeing with his policies, or even given interviews, as long as I was respectful and civil.
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You've got the top 400 Americans owning more wealth than the bottom 150 million Americans. Most folks do not think that is right.
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I want to take you to a place of pure magic... It's the place athletes call the "zone". Buddhists call "satori" and ravers call "trance". I call it the Silver Desert. It's a place of pure light that holds the dark within it. It's a place of pure rhythm.
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Nonviolence as a lifestyle and perpetual strategy will allow us to be on the offense instead of continually on the defense. We will be able to move the ball down the field with team decisions and playmaking versus constantly thinking about how the opposing forces are moving the ball.
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Your future is ahead of you. Imagine the notion of the past fifteen years of your life being a blip in your story.
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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.
