Mark Strand Quotes
The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
Quotes to Explore
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My grandfather milked several cows twice a day and supplied the neighbours with dairy products. He liked to go visiting around the county on Saturdays, and he also enjoyed the neighbours when they came by once a week with their empty milk jars. He walked them out to their cars and hung over the driver's side window until they drove off.
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Sea Change was so specific. From the beginning it was set what it was going to be. All the other ideas that I had at the time I had to put to the side.
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I love Bridget Fonda.
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In France, successive waves of Gaul, Visigoth, and Frank have swept over the land and have dominated it. But the fair hair and blue eyes and the clear skin of the conquering races have been submerged by the rising and overflow of the dusky blood of the original population.
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The Strauss Group identified water as a strategic category presenting significant business opportunity in line with the Group's long term business strategy and vision. We view the development of a technology that enables high quality drinking water for both home and offices as a means to improve the quality of life of millions of people.
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Hip-hop is an instant gratification, winners and losers circle, and often those who are losing give up after three or four, five years.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I take my kids to school... I make them breakfast. Unfortunately, dad is a big spoiler, and most days, I make four different breakfasts.
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I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different stuff, you know what I mean?
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I firmly believe that the mission of religion in the 21st century must be to contribute concretely to the peaceful coexistence of humankind.
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There's no regrets for me.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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Your former Fathers the Spaniards have now no further Authority over you.
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I'm not a one-issue person.
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My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.
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The more I push myself to really live and really experience things and step outside of my comfort zone, the more the songs are allowed to flow.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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I come from Surajpur, a valley in Himachal Pradesh near Manali that is named after my great grandfather Sarju Singh Ranaut.
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The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.
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What we learned on September 11 is that the unthinkable is now thinkable in the world.
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Respect the man of noble races other than your own, who carries out, in a different place, a combat parallel to yours - to ours. He is your ally. He is our ally, be he at the other end of the world.
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In my view, a philanthropist is anyone who gives anything - time, money, experience, skills or networks - in any amount, to create a better world. This is not how we once thought about philanthropy. The word used to conjure up something rather passive - sitting down and writing checks.
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Some companies are worth paying for up front.
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The number of people writing poems is vast, and their reasons for doing so are many, that much can be surmised from the stacks of submissions.
