Billy Collins Quotes
I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.
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If there's a pool I love to hangout there and layout and get some sun. If I can ever find a second to get some sun, some Vitamin D, I will do so.
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I married my high school sweetheart, and I do have two kids.
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I never went after fame. It fell into my lap.
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And secondly, I would impose a significant state landfill tipping fee and use that tipping fee to fund the billion dollar bond issue that I want to create to produce the funds for all of the environmental challenges that we just went over.
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History is full of people who went to prison or were burned at the stake for proclaiming their ideas. Society has always defended itself.
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The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
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The attitude among the people I knew was, 'Fleur wants to be a singer' but it was never, 'Go for it. You can do it.' Everyone was cynical because we'd never seen anyone where we came from do it.
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Science is fun. Science is curiosity. We all have natural curiosity. Science is a process of investigating. It's posing questions and coming up with a method. It's delving in.
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You're only as old as you feel, and I feel pretty young. I've got one gear, and till it gets reversed, I'm going all out.
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Some people turn from God because they cannot understand how a good God can permit evil in the world.
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I'm always keen to have more training as a charity patron.
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I've done my time. I've done it as well and as respectfully as I think anyone can.
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I have never known a really chic woman whose appearance was not, in large part, an outward reflection of her inner self.
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The greatest MCs came out of groups; the greatest singers came out of groups. So you can't tell us we're not MCs.
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I hated cracking the whip, and these juries turn into political things.
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When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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Nothing lasts in New York. The life that is lived there, however, is as intense as it gets.
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'Is all this serious?' Gurgeh said, turning, amused, from the screen to the drone.'Deadly serious,' Flere-Imsaho told him. Gurgeh laughed and shook his head. He thought the common people must be remarkably stupid if they believed all this nonsense.
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I got into writing and thinking about politics because I was told there would be no math.
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I think often that God is guiding me.
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There was a side of me that knew I was gonna change the game, but I didn't know how many people would respect it.
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I don't know of anybody's political bias at CBS News. We try very hard to get any opinion that we have out of our stories, and most of our stories are balanced.
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Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.
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I think what gets a poem going is an initiating line. Sometimes a first line will occur, and it goes nowhere; but other times - and this, I think, is a sense you develop - I can tell that the line wants to continue.
