Mark Strand Quotes
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
Karl Pilkington -
I want to find a way to speak to the broadest audience possible.
Zach Anner -
Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.
Valerie Plame -
I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.
Eduard Shevardnadze -
Living in a cultural milieu where the foreign writers most widely available and admired were Russian, I came very late to postwar American writers, and I had great trouble with the canonically exalted white male writers I tried first.
Pankaj Mishra -
I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something.
Jackie Mason
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There's been an unfortunate history of efforts to make sure Florida's votes don't count. Given that history, it's clear why people here would be especially concerned about efforts undertaken by Super PACs and the corporations that fund them to dictate the outcome of elections.
Ted Deutch -
I make music because I like making music.
Natalia Kills -
I know I'm going to be remembered for football. That's why I work so hard at it.
J. J. Watt -
I will defend and enforce the laws of our country to ensure that our people and our nation are protected.
Dana Boente -
The lessons I learned as an officer, the challenges I've faced, and the camaraderie I've experienced are at the core of who I am.
Tammy Duckworth -
The first movie that I saw was Godzilla and I loved it.
Pam Grier
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A general problem with much of Western theology... is that the God portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy, much less a universe.
Carl Sagan -
Grishkin is nice: herRussian eye is underlined for emphasis;Uncorseted, her friendly bustGives promise of pneumatic bliss.
T. S. Eliot -
I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
Irving Berlin -
What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.
Hal David -
But when you're standing at a crossroad, there's a choice you've got to make.
Carrie Underwood -
The world that we live in isn't uniform-looking, and the future that we're headed toward isn't uniform-looking.
Laeta Kalogridis
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I don't think I really make singer-songwritery-type music - it's not my strong point.
Mark Ronson -
If you have something to say, a movie is a really great medium to say it. It doesn't matter what the message is.
Kathryn Newton -
I can't imagine ever not making music, making albums, writing songs, doing shows. That's all I really know, and that's all I really do.
Pixie Lott -
I didn't have any aspirations of becoming famous or successful; in fact I was scared to death of all that. I remember somebody once said that if a rock musician goes on tour, he goes insane. I was very impressionable and I carried this useless weight of fear around with me about going on tour, all because of this thing somebody said.
Steven Siro Vai Alcatrazz -
When I take up my pen to write, I feel the strength of standing up and refusing to be silent. In an oppressive situation, silence is death.
Chenjerai Hove -
I tend to like poems that engage me - that is to say, which do not bore me.
Mark Strand