Mark Strand Quotes

Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

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• My sisters used to learn dance, and I used to stand behind them and dance. So my guruji suggested that I also learn, as I seemed interested. I started learning at the age of three and was always on stage for something or the other. My mother is proud of me, and clearly my artistic bent comes from her.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Mother
  • Age
  • Learning

• It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

  

  Daisy Fuentes
  • Business
  • Think
  • Know

• I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Father

• I figure if people don't want to make the distinction between a Muslim and a terrorist, then why should I make a distinction between good scared white people and racists?

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• I never knew motherhood could be so truly gratifying until I had Natasha.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Never
  • Motherhood
  • Knew

• Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Want
  • Me
  • Admit

• As an actor, I want to build a career as an actor. It's hard to even get a job sometimes, so as my career builds, I can be more picky than I used to be.

  

  Randy Wayne
  • Job
  • Want
  • Career

• It's awfully nice when people thank you for the pleasure and laughter you've brought to their lives.

  

  Gary Burghoff
  • People
  • Nice
  • Laughter

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • Art
  • Effort

• At the moment I am a little bit politician, yes. I think that could be my next step. It is not because I want power, it is because of what I think I could do for the people.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Power
  • Moment

• I love to act, but business is more interesting because it's more competitive and involves more people. There's more 'now' mentality and energy. Intellectually, it's a lot more interesting.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • People
  • Love
  • Business

• The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Great
  • Experience
  • Power

• When we started there was this element of these experiments we were doing where we weren't really sure how the music would play out because the music was all on different players.

  

  Wayne Coyne
  • Music
  • Different
  • Play

• It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.

  

  Dan Castellaneta
  • Up
  • Job
  • Funny

• I am always watching old films and trying to fill gaps in my knowledge.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Knowledge
  • Old
  • Films

• At least I can say that I'm honest.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Say
  • Honest
  • I Can

• Well it's always been an element of the horror film to show us the gross out. I mean that's one option for all filmmakers making a horror film and it's not something I've found myself above either.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Mean
  • Myself
  • Always

• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Truth
  • Today
  • Present

• As soon as it was clear, in Copenhagen in 2009, that the Senate was blocking Obama from introducing meaningful climate legislation, the push was for him to use executive authority, use the EPA, use the tool of federal leases, and there was just a refusal to do it.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Meaningful
  • Authority
  • Him

• I've always been fascinated by accounts of seemingly 'normal' people who have committed horrendous acts of cruelty and violence. You hear it on the news all the time.

  

  Richard Montanari
  • Accounts
  • Fascinated
  • Horrendous

• It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your decisions about what to focus on, what things mean to you, and what you're going to do about them that will determine your ultimate destiny.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Past
  • Mean
  • Focus

• The Mirror Stage as formative in the function of the I as revealed in psychoanalytic experience.

  

  Jacques Lacan
  • Experience
  • Mirror
  • Function

• ... thou shall not steal, even by majority vote ...

  

  Gary North
  • Vote
  • Majority

• Nothing is the destiny of everyone, it is our commonness made dumb.

  

  Mark Strand
  • Destiny
  • Dumb