Charles Olson Quotes
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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I define power as 'control over one's life.' A balanced life is far superior to the male definition of power: earning money someone else spends while he dies sooner.
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I'd visually have that idea. I'm diving off the end of the diving board. I'm not going to be worried about if I'm going to dive into a jellyfish or the water's going to be too cold or the boys are going to beat me. I'm just doing it. And if I do it, it's a good chance I'll make it.
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I think that boy bands as a whole are really coming back.
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I'm a monomaniac with one goal: clean air from clean energy.
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Parts of the world can be very hostile to differences, social or artistic.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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I don't have a favorite author; I have favorite books. 'Moby Dick' is a favorite book, but Melville was a drunk who beat his wife. 'Moveable Feast' by Hemingway, but I would not like him personally. He was a stupid macho person who believed in shooting animals for fun, but that book was incredible!
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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This is going to sound really funny. I have a poster of Zac Efron on my wall! I think every girl has a poster of him in their room so, why not join the club!
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I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.
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I think by eighth grade I knew I wanted to be an actor. I'd done church plays and stuff, but my first actual acting class was in eighth grade. I was obsessed with it.
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The best part about poker is there's no down side.
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Too often, we have tended to fall into a trap of creating plain hamburgers.
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It wasn't until the late '70s that a lot of people knew me.
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It's a very strange silence that I'm living in right now. It's a silence that has a lot of activity and noise in it from a zone that I don't live in on this earth.
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'Alyx,' she said, 'you're going to be a legend.''I already am, Captain,' she said.
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Good roads, canals, and navigable rivers, by diminishing the expence of carriage, put the remote parts of the country more nearly upon a level with with those of the neighbourhood of the town. They are upon that the greatest of all improvements.
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There are so many songs out there in the world that - if I know we have to come up with a new cover, then I'll just sit in my room and sing song after song and figure out which one I can kind of sing the best.
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Best startups generally come from somebody needing to scratch an itch.
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Kids now are so used to surround sound and the power in theater speakers, that the concert hall is a disappointment to them.
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The truth about parenting is that the reality of our lives needs to be enough.
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We all want what's been suddenly disallowed.
