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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At the beginning when the child is coming, people worry the child may be deformed. When a healthy boy or child comes, people are very happy for a short moment.
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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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Cable news is 24 hours long, so you have to fill it up with something.
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Everybody calls "clear" those ideas which have the same degree of confusion as his own.
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People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
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I want a nonfiction that explores our shifting, unstable, multiform, evanescent experience in and of the world.
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I don't worry anymore because there's only one person that knows when your day is, and that's the good Lord above.
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From the reader's view, a poem is more demanding than prose.
