Charles Olson Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.
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There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.
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As technology changes the way we communicate, connect, create, consume and innovate, it is democratizing access to opportunity. Education is no exception.
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We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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Ale, man, ale's the stuff to drink for fellows whom it hurts to think.
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I come from a wonderful country with wonderful people.
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I am a woman in process. I'm just trying like everybody else. I try to take every conflict, every experience, and learn from it. Life is never dull.
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Look at the forces against me. They don't want me out. They're afraid I'll cause trouble if I get out.
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Piety is the most solid goodness, and the vilest of what is evil is vice.
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Any person without invincible prejudice who had the same experience would come to the same broad conclusion, viz., that things hitherto held impossible do actually occur.
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I never liked Hans Christian Andersen because I knew he was always getting at me.
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A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.
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One of the things I would love for people to think about is social responsibility. If you are fortunate enough to be someone who owns land, I think you ought to be making the most efficient use of that land possible.
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When Matt LeBlanc had his show 'Joey', I strongly suggested to the producers that they should bring me on.
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Solitude is the profoundest fact of the human condition. Man is the only being who knows he is alone.
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It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
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Silence, much more powerful than before, much more shot through with the meaning of life and the accumulated wisdom of history.
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I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?
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I think the glue that held 'Fringe' together was the relationships.
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When I am before the Blessed Sacrament I feel such a lively faith that I can't describe it. Christ in the Eucharist is almost tangible to me...When it is time for me to leave, I have to tear myself away from His sacred presence.
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with what violence benevolence is bought what cost in gesture justice brings what wrongs domestic rights involve what stalks this silence
