David Lehman Quotes
If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
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I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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I remember when I was 5 living on Pulaski Street in Brooklyn, the hallway of our building had a brass banister and a great sound, a great echo system. I used to sing in the hallway.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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Back in high school, I didn't ever see a Muslim homecoming king or queen - there was never even anyone nominated. It just seemed for a lot of those events, Muslim kids were not being included, and it was probably our fault too - no one was going for it, but no one was trying to push us to do it, you know?
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I love anything to do with history.
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There's a generative material relationship between the material and the image that comes up.
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Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.
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The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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I like 'The Three Musketeers.' I like those kind of cool things where they were having a robe and a sword.
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You have a new role: family caregiver. It's a role nobody applies for. You don't expect it. You won't be prepared. You probably won't even identify yourself as a caregiver.
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It's not enough to have economic growth. You have to distribute wealth throughout all of society.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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I don't want to talk in terms of miracles. I think this is a very serious situation. But I do want to talk in terms of Bush becoming a man of the hour, and I think this is way to do it.
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I've been acting since age 8. I just stopped enjoying it as much as I used to.
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Hindi films offer a wider reach. As an industry, it has the capability to merge varied states, languages, and nationalities.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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It's OK to stay at a job that you don't enjoy, because you're scared.
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Put together, what we want is a system that supports, protects, and properly pays good teachers and makes it possible in a responsible and fair way to remove teachers judged to be incompetent or abusive - that's it.
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On reflection, moral judgment in the arts appears rather as a tribute to their power to influence emotion and possibly conduct. And reflecting further on what some critics do today, one sees that a good many have merely shifted the ground of their moralism, transferring their impulse of righteousness to politics and social issues.
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If you have too good a time writing hostile reviews, you'll injure not only your sensibility but your soul.
