Mark Strand Quotes

But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

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• I'm not a great fiction reader. I love history. I love history and philosophy.

  

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• My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.

  

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• Oh God, my choice of film has never depended on the hero. In fact, you will see that some of my categorical mistakes had nothing to do with the hero in it.

  

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• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
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• Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.

  

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• I had just 15 days to work on my body for the climactic fight of 'Bodyguard.' And I would work on every muscle of my body two/three times a week. I would have developed a superb body if I had three months, but squeezing it into 15 days can be harmful. Also, as you grow older, your metabolic rate slows down.

  

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• Music is where I started. It's kind of the base of everything.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
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• I'm triggering acoustic instruments. I'm literally beating, smacking, hitting, blowing, doing physical things. It's an incredibly exciting way to make music.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
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• I've always been blessed with confidence. I am a glass-half-full person. My first movie, 'Private Benjamin,' got turned down by every studio until the very last one, but I just kept thinking, 'Why are you people not seeing that this is a hit movie? What is wrong with you?'

  

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• Deterrence is still fundamentally about influencing an actor's decisions. It is about a solid policy foundation. It is about credible capabilities. It is about what the U.S. and our allies as a whole can bring to bear in both a military and a nonmilitary sense.

  

  C. Robert Kehler
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• We live in an era of globalization and the era of the woman. Never in the history of the world have women been more in control of their destiny.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
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• We live in a society where nothing is sacred.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
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• A necessary consequent of religious belief is the attaching ideas of merit to that belief, and of demerit to its absence.

  

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• I feel like I've spent the majority of my time touring and traveling, so if I reduced the actual time making music, it's probably four and a half years at the most.

  

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• For me, most of the anxiety and difficulty of writing takes place in the act of not writing. It's the procrastination, the thinking about writing that's difficult.

  

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• Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

  

  Gary Paulsen
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• I'm not going to hold my breath because life goes on. Life is too short to sit around moaning about what could have been or what was.

  

  Tina Weymouth
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• They are radical groups who identify with the violent jihad of Islamacist terror organizations like al-Qaeda, Hizbollah, Islamic Jihad and Hamas. And they have the support of a radical culture that regards America as the Great Satan, and Muslims and Arabs as the people whom America oppresses.

  

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• The car has become the carapace, the protective and aggressive shell, of urban and suburban man.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
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• One of the big things that broke the band up for me, which I've become much clearer on over the years, was that I had no desire to be famous.

  

  James Murphy
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• But I tend to think of the expressive part of me as rather tedious - never curious or responsive, but blind and self-serving.

  

  Mark Strand