Mark Strand Quotes
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The world is cynical and sarcastic, but that doesn't mean that that's always the truth.
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I've never met anyone that is their image.
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In Holy Cross, I came to like school, to like studying in a way I had never done before.
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It was unpredictable, good storytelling that brought you back each week.
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One half who graduate from college never read another book.
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The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
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I'm just a kid from Bronx who got lucky.
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I worry unnecessarily.
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Generally, I like making my own mistakes and learning from them because that's what I think life is about.
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Patriotism has no appeal to us; justice has. Party has no weight with us; principle has. Loyalty is meaningless; it depends on what one is loyal to.
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I really started dreaming... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.
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Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.
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Writing is a form of licensed madness.
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People talk fundamentals and superlatives and then make some changes of detail.
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Women are amazing lovers.
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Life is funny. If you don't laugh, you're in trouble.
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Whether it is salt farmers in India embracing solar power or wind companies creating tens of thousands of jobs in America, people are providing a vision for the clean energy future.
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Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.
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I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.
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I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.
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Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.
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I really respect the Coen brothers as directors and as creative individuals and with the way that they handle the industry and the business side of things.
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For some of us, the less said about the way we do things the better.
