Billy Collins Quotes
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Confirming John Roberts would endanger much of the progress made by the nation in civil rights over the past half century.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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My grandpa would come in with water and flick it on our faces at 6 A.M. and be like, 'If you don't get up to feed the horses, you don't get to ride them.' We'd get up.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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I feel like I've accomplished everything I could in the dunk contest. It would be hard for me to go back and outdo myself.
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Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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There aren't always, especially in low-income communities, the arts and the dance and the drama and the things that can really show a kid, 'Look, even if I'm three years behind in math, there's something I'm good at that can help me be successful in life.'
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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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I like that the 'Underworld' series created a whole other world that's totally different yet familiar to our own.
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If you don't show care and love for your children and leave the mothers to take care of all their needs, if they grow up, they will also not consider you.
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When you know something in your heart, you better not be quiet about it. You better speak out about it.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.
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I always keep a ball in the car. You never know.
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Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.
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Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.
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I'm constantly pitching one episode where we see life through Castle's eyes. I think Castle's just a little off as far as his perception goes. A very, very clever man, but I want to see the world as Castle sees it - kind of a rose-colored glasses, all the women find him irresistible, all the guys find him super cool and do whatever he says.
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One who is too insistent on his own views, finds few to agree with him.
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Every night, I'm like, 'Where's the party?' and then it cuts to me on the couch with the remote control watching repeats of 'That '70s Show' and 'Boy Meets World.'
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Even if you only want to write science fiction, you should also read mysteries, poetry, mainstream literature, history, biography, philosophy, and science.
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My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.
