Billy Collins Quotes
Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
Quotes to Explore
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I was thinking of going to London drama schools or to New York, because France didn't accommodate the things I wanted to do in film.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.
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Sotomayor's vainglorious lecture bromide about herself as 'a wise Latina' trumping white men is a vulgar embarrassment - a vestige of the bad old days of male-bashing feminism.
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Sometimes your parents are the ones with the biggest mouths of all time.
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I'm twitchy. I think I've got ADD. I find it hard to sit down. I need to be constantly challenged; otherwise, I get very... well, I guess 'bored' is the word.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.
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You are God's own masterpiece! That means you are not ordinary or average; you are a one-of-a-kind original.
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From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs.
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When I got a million subscribers, it just sort of snowballed from there because a lot more people show interest. They're like, 'Who's this? They've got a million subscribers; maybe I'll like their channel.'
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We are exactly where we have chosen to be.
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There are essential elements for our public schools to fully develop the potential of both students and educators. They should be centers of community, where students, families and educators work together to support student success. They should foster collaboration.
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Credit you give yourself is not worth having.
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I don't intend to simply go away and write my plays and be a good boy. I intend to remain an independent and political intelligence in my own right.
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People always underestimate me. But if you stick around long enough, act out of conviction, and try to be honorable in everything you do, good things will come to you.
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I am not ashamed of my grandparents for having been slaves. I am only ashamed of myself for having at one time being ashamed.
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Let's abolish the IRS, let's eliminate income tax, let's eliminate corporate tax, let's balance the federal budget, and if we need a tax, it can be one federal consumption tax.
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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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I'm praying for healing for our nation. For retaliation that yields constructive results. Peaceful protests. We need each other.
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In America, we have always taken it as an article of faith that we 'battle' cancer; we attack it with knives, we poison it with chemotherapy or we blast it with radiation. If we are fortunate, we 'beat' the cancer. If not, we are posthumously praised for having 'succumbed after a long battle.'
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I can never be in the same place for too long. It feels like the world is caving in.
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My mother was funnier than anybody I ever worked for. My father was as funny as this coat. Not a laugh a minute, my father.
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Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
