Delmore Schwartz Quotes
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The thing about Y Combinator that's cool is that most companies won't happen if we don't fund them.
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If studying the periodic table taught me nothing else, it's that the credulity of human beings for periodic table panaceas is pretty much boundless.
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It's incredible what happens when you explain to kids what good food is - they get so excited! They go home and tell their parents... and they're excited to cook the recipes themselves in class.
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When I write, I get glimpses into future novels.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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As humans, we're going to make mistakes. It's what makes us human, and most of the time, the most effective way of learning is from a mistake.
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I believe my customer knows her style and knows how to mix and match your style.
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Children are our future we must take care of them with maximum effort.
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If we have to use force, it is because we are America. We are the indispensable nation. We stand tall. We see further into the future.
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A pocket square must always - always - be white and a bit wild. If it is too prepared, it is tacky.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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Mainly I love working on good writing.
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Athletics: it's a wonderful thing, it's a spell-binding thing, nothing in life has quite as much pageantry, as much emotion within a finite time frame, it's incredibly exciting.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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I try to stay in decent shape.
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I don't eat bad food. I probably just eat too much food, and I think a lot of people do.
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To sense the invisible and to be able to create it - that is art.
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The real prize is never delivered by memory or by imagination, but by something above them.
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Belief in God is apparently a psychological artifact of mammalian reproduction.
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Today we have access to highly advanced technologies. But our social and economic system has not kept up with our technological capabilities that could easily create a world of abundance, free of servitude and debt.
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It takes 65 muscles to frown and 13 to make a smile. Why work overtime?
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It was just as if somebody inside him were saying, 'Now then, Pooh, time for a little something.'
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A painting lets us know how somebody literally saw things. A piece of music is another language that transmits a whole wealth of emotion and wordless experience. But writing is special in the way at allows us to temporarily enter another person's world, to step outside the boundaries of our own time and space.
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In dreams begin responsibilities.
