Delmore Schwartz Quotes
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In writing 'The Satanic Verses,' I think I was writing for the first time from the whole of myself. The English part, the Indian part. The part of me that loves London, and the part that longs for Bombay. And at my typewriter, alone, I could indulge this.
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I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
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I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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If I was a condiment, I'm gonna go ahead and say I would be Sriracha, because I go well with other things. I'm too much for some people, and hipsters like me.
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Every day is like Halloween or Christmas eve for me. I go to bed, and I'm so excited to get back to work. I'm very lucky that I have a career like that 'cause not many people do.
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I like freedom. I wake up in the morning and say, 'I don't know, should I have a popsicle or a donut?' You know, who knows?
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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Jordan is the only Arab state that has provided citizenship to Palestinian refugees and integrated them. But something has to be done about the Palestinians living in refugee camps in Syria and Lebanon.
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I haven't been to a movie since somebody gave me free tickets to Star Wars, which I went to.
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Novel writing wrecks homes.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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I never believed that India could win a medal in badminton because the competition is so tough.
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I think people would be most surprised to know that I love scary movies.
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
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I've gone down to the Jersey Shore every summer since I was born. It's like a second home, and Asbury Park is like the capital - it's the center of all of it. Musically, it's incredible.
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There is nothing so good for the human soul as the discovery that there are ancient and flourishing civilized societies which have somehow managed to exist for many centuries and are still in being though they have had no help from the traveler in solving their problems.
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It seems to me every one of us is doing something meaningful for this world.
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Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.
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Very often we support change, and then are swept away by the change. I think that...you just make your own response to your own generation. A response adequate to your time.
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Collectors are paying for our education by purchasing our art.
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You have to discipline your children, or they won't respect you, law enforcement or God or anyone else.
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Sometimes even paranoids have enemies.
