Billy Collins Quotes
To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
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At Ozon, salaries are evaluated every year based on market benchmarks which are gender neutral.
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Power in politics, sovereignty in America is with we the people, and that is the path to turning this country around: empowering the people.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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Drink warm water with lemon first thing in the morning. It's a good way to detox and alkalize your body.
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The level of confidence women are able to build in women-only groups is important.
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
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You could say I'm a character actress. Or maybe a character actress who does peculiar, interesting lead roles.
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One of the reasons I love to come to Paris is because the decorative arts are so refined that I am always walking through one proscenium into another frame.
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I know I should keep this a secret, but Celine Dion is something of an icon to me.
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All children should have equal opportunities.
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I've been very physical my whole life. I went out hiking and camping for days in the Australian forest, and when I trained at drama school for three years, we did a whole lot on stage-fighting techniques. And I was a dancer from 5 to 18, so I have a memory for choreography.
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This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.
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To do a romantic scene is the most unromantic thing to do on screen.
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I have a hard time with musicians who act like pricks because it just makes me mad. I just sit there and I go, 'You know what, dude, no matter whether you're in a band just surviving or you're in a bus playing stadiums, one way or another, you're still among the rare breed of people that are actually getting paid to do it.'
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Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.
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I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.
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I know a lot of people don't have their parents in their life - their mother, their father - but I've got the best two you could ask for, I swear.
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After about twenty issues of Josie, they decided to pay me.
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For the first time I feel an inner emotional security. There is reality and dependability. My life revolves around Richard and the baby.
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I think I had only been working nine months when I got Star Trek, and it was huge. It was very overwhelming. So that opened my eyes a bit at an early age, kind of how not be frightened when walking into a responsibility of something like villain in Batman, or a Hobbit, or whatever it is.
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The want of proper examination, true contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment, is the cause of bad confessions, and of the ruin of souls.
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The way to be successful is through preparation. It doesn't just happen. You don't wake up one day and discover you're a lawyer any more than you wake up as a pro football player. It takes time.
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The weirdest thing I've been fascinated with nowadays is the new contemporary country music, which to me sounds like very strange '70s pop, and sometimes like rock music. But some of the themes in there - maybe it's because I know how the songs were written, but it really does sound like it was written by two or three people, with the idea to appeal to the most general audience.
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To a poet, it's quite ruinous to have a poem distorted, out of shape, or squeezed, shall we say, into this tiny screen. But I'm not sure big digital companies are sensitive to the needs of poets.
