Billy Collins Quotes
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The government of the German Democratic Republic rejects secret policies. It works for the people, and only the people, so it does not need to keep secrets like the warmongers.
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The greatest mathematicians, as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure.
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I've taken the love of fashion from my mother, and journalism from my father.
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I manage my business; politicians are doing their business. I can only work within their rules and regulations. I can't pick up a political fight.
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Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.
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It is as necessary for man to live in beauty rather than ugliness as it is necessary for him to have food for an aching belly or rest for a weary body.
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Every villain needs her story told.
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In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.
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Guns are beautiful. But I don't like what they do.
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If I want to, I can sign 20 films for ridiculous amounts of money, but I really want to do different kinds of cinema. I want creative satisfaction.
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My grandmother had many children. She lost most. So when we came along, we were really special. I was the first grandchild that could see her spirit moving to a new generation.
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The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
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This is not a country that has had a tremendous sympathy for poor people, so I think that the notion that somehow we have slipped into an era in which poor people don't matter is not quite the way our history would define it.
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In Mexico, you have to defend yourself and your honour.
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It is clear that while our Army was engaged in Afghanistan and Iraq, Russia studied U.S. capabilities and vulnerabilities and embarked on an ambitious and largely successful modernization effort.
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Hip-hop for me has always been hardcore and edgy.
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I feel like I'm one of the more creative artists in the game. I think I'm going to be here for a while.
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His conversation does not show the minute-hand, but he strikes the hour very correctly.
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If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other…you’d rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.
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The essence of science is independent thinking, hard work, and not equipment. When I got my Nobel Prize, I had spent hardly 200 rupees on my equipment.
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I want to keep a mysterious side to me. I want to keep a mysterious side to me.
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I fell into lyric writing because of music. I backed into it.
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We think it's so important that we get [Carolyne] Maloney in that seat [in Congress]. It's one of the reasons; we also think that she is a unique person that deserves it and would help advance women's rights.
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I'll listen to anything authentic whether it's bluegrass or gospel or blues.
