Mark Strand Quotes
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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I'm very wary of news on television.
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Every woman should shave her head once in her life, to experience what it feels like.
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I got a chance to work with Mel Brooks on two of his films: Silent Movie and High Anxiety.
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As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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Flip through the channels, and there is no denying it: The world of cable news - and their network chat-show brethren - is very, very white.
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I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other.
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When you're on top, you're on top.
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Farmers only worry during the growing season, but townspeople worry all the time.
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If I don't explain or tell some of my experiences, I feel like I'm doing guys a disservice because I know as a younger player, there's things I could benefit from the experience of an older guy.
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I started in live television and I've done a lot of live TV and that's really the thing that I love best. I love flying by the seat of my pants.
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The problem is that Americans care more about saving whales than saving males.
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I love winning more than I love playing badminton. Winning is everything.
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We need to create an ecosystem which will make young people want to start their own company.
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For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
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I'm not the type that's going to sit and preach to people if they don't need it just because I've been around the block a few times.
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
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I'm an only child. Which is kind of bad, because having a brother or sister is like another form of friendship. That's something I've missed out on, except I know that I couldn't be doing what I am doing now if I had brothers and sisters.
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That slave narratives existed at all implied a satisfactory conclusion to the journey - the attainment of literacy, the escape to the place where one could reflect on the experience of bondage and the flight to freedom, and, in the early days of the slave trade, the conversion to Christianity.
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I think, in this country, anybody can do whatever they want to do as long as it's not hurting anybody else or violating the laws of society.
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I like to step outside of what people's idea of me might be. I suppose that makes me a bit of a rule-breaker. I like to take chances.
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Warhol had a huge effect on me. It wasn't that I sought it out. It was more of a natural evolution.
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
