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 would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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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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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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Back in May of 2008, the Kindle was still quite new, and we focused on that.
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It is our historical experience, that Hungary can only live in wealth and safety if Berlin, Moscow, and Ankara are on our side and also interested in our success - even if we do not always agree on certain questions.
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All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.
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Many are called but few get up.
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It gets boring to me when people talk about clothing brands or what boat they're going to buy next summer.
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I want to connect with my fans the way Mary J. Blige's fans connect with her.
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I hold that gentleman to be the best dressed whose dress no one observes. I am not sure but that the same may be said of an author's written language.
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Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.
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I'm not an artist, and I want to take risks, and when the possibility of failure occurs, it's because the idea is all exciting or interesting as a high wire act, and sometimes you've got to fall off, just by virtue of the fact that you're constantly trying to evolve and do new things.
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Cannes is the oldest film festival in the world, and I've long dreamed of having one of my films there in competition. It's a dream that lay dormant for a long time; I stopped believing in it.
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Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.
