Mark Strand Quotes
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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It's quite rare that you find models taken care of backstage.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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Because Islam in its original form was tough and hard, not weak and pliable.
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Fear obscures reason, intensifies emotions, and makes it easier for demagogic politicians to mobilize the public on behalf of the policies they want to pursue.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.
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If you can tune into your purpose and really align with it, setting goals so that your vision is an expression of that purpose, then life flows much more easily.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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MWA and The Author's Guild refused to accept me as a member.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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'Homeland' is great at challenging our preconceived ideas.
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I'm not going to raise the debt ceiling.
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The enmity of such a party towards Socialism does not mean that the members are only prejudiced against it because they do not know it; it means that they are possessed of bourgeois ideas, and wish to determine their policy accordingly.
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It's a lot harder to stick to my regime when I'm travelling, so when I'm home, I make sure that when I wake up in the morning, I drink one litre of water with lemon to cleanse my body from the inside, and then I'll have a big jar of vegetable juice.
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But the scientific importance of a change in knowledge of fact consists precisely in j its having consequences for a system of theory.
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Lead yourself, lead your superiors, lead your peers, and free your people to do the same. All else is trivia.
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What's my favourite food? One you order out.
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L.A., for me, is a perfect microcosm of America - because it's so profligate, and so glamorous, and so anti-intellectual, finally.
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When my parents got divorced, there was a custody fight over me. ... and no one showed up.
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Usually a life turned into a poem is misrepresented.
