Charles Olson Quotes
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My brothers and I would sit out on the park bench and harmonize.
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Post-Modernism was a reaction against Modernism. It came quite early to music and literature, and a little later to architecture. And I think it's still coming to computer science.
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I just like to stay a little quiet and just do my own thing. If I win a little more, I think I'll get a little bit more attention.
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My mail address is open for anyone, and I read all my mails by myself.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.
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When I was singing, everybody liked me.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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You can't reconcile being pro-life on abortion and pro-death on the death penalty.
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It's Teach For America's responsibility to ensure that all alumni know their voices are heard and valued, and to surface the range of opinion they represent.
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What do you know? Haven't you heard of suspension of disbelief?
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Whenever I act well, my head clears. Always a bit frail I was personally, but never professionally.
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'Groundhog Day' was one of the greatest comedies ever made.
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I enjoyed working with Ted Kennedy.
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'Twin Peaks' has got interesting characters. They are all different from anything anyone has ever seen before. You've had bad people before. But everyone's got little quirks, and everyone's interesting.
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This is going to make me sound ancient, but I remember Juhu Beach when there weren't any buildings on it. You'd go through countryside and arrive at this amazing beach. I remember driving from Delhi to the Qutab Minar through countryside. Mehrauli was a little village - that's all gone.
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My mother was a fashion designer, and my father was a model.
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The race for the White House is normally an event suffused with drama, sucking eyeballs to the page all over the globe.
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When I do train heavy, it's typically one to two days a week, but the training I do just about on a daily basis is Pilates-based.
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We're always trying to do something better than the last record; to do something different and evolve as a band.
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I don't think you should have everybody's information from their bank. There should be some process: accusations and proof that you've committed a crime.
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There's no choice left in America anymore. Anything that's authentic and genuine, anything that grew out of any sense of tradition, is wiped out. We're left with this bland monoculture that's swept over the whole country.
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Atlantis will rise again.
