Billy Collins Quotes
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
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Sometimes when I'm going to the supermarket to get the coffee and cat litter, I get freaked out and see all these people staring, and you turn around and there's, like, 40 people all looking at you... and when you go around the corner, they're all following you! You start freaking out like a trapped animal.
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The Doobie Brothers are one of my favorites of all time.
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I started dealing with weapons on the first show I ever did, 'The Inside,' but I didn't really do any physical stuff until 'Alias.'
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I think success is very hard work, so, you know, if you work hard and you have some success, you have to give up something.
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'The New World Haggadah' is meant for American Jews in the 21st century.
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You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.
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It gives me immense pleasure to be trustworthy, faithful, and true – to have the kind of romantic bond that inspires this.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I remember fear and I remember the potential of nuclear war.
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I like cinema. I am very fond of it. But from time to time I feel like having some time on my own.
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I'm learning Spanish - I got Rosetta Stone for Christmas.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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My business issues are just that - business - and I deal with them like they are business.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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I was in Nashville quite a bit when I shot 'Nashville,' and I was in Los Angeles when I shot in 'Supergirl'.
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I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.
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A man is as alive as he can communicate.
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They should have a rule: in order to be a sportswriter, you have to have played that sport, at some level; high school, college, junior college, somewhere. Or, you should have had to have been around the game for a long time.
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There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing.
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The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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The more we talk of Jesus, the more of His matchless charms we shall behold.
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As favor and riches forsake a man, we discover in him the foolishness they concealed, and which no one perceived before.
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I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
