Donald Hall Quotes
Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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We believe in peace and peaceful development, not only for ourselves but for people all over the world.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I wasn't interested at all in doing a documentary. I was not a public figure.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I never knew that Americans would take up soccer, and it's a gender-free sport in high school there.
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I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.
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Pete Seeger is a modest, unassuming, cheerful, and kind-natured man. He's a good folk singer, if you can stand folk singing. And he's such an excellent banjo player that you almost don't wish you had a pair of wire cutters.
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I've been in situations where I was the only black guy. We're in a time now where nobody wants to see that. But it still happens.
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Only when he no longer knows what he is doing does the painter do good things.
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Our intent is to operate Time Warner as it operates today, with autonomy in its divisions, including the world-class creative talent and journalists that make Time Warner a leader in entertainment and news.
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You can't hire someone to practice for you.
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I like mellow music. I like some jazz. But I'm not a big hard rock guy.
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No one wants to see curvy women.
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I think that what we do out on the field is oftentimes a little bit better than what men do. I don't think that we flop around as much. I think we're tough. I mean, I've got battle wounds on my legs from the turf and sliding. And we're gritty. And we're feisty. And I think that I would never back down from a guy.
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Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.
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There's so many different styles to it. I use my athletic ability to create shots for open people, I run the floor, then also space the floor as well. That's what I try to do.
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You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.
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Well, enough clowning around. Perl is, in intent, a cleaned up and summarized version of that wonderful semi-natural language known as'Unix'.
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Poetry helps me understand who I am. It helps me understand the world around me. But above all, what poetry has taught me is the fact that I need to embrace mystery in order to be completely human.
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When life hands you melons, eat them.
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I've been on lots of movies where we've done a lot of planning of sets - how much you build, and is this big enough, and will this get us what we need? - just with foam-core models.
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Every afternoon, I shut the door of my bedroom to write: Poetry was secret, dangerous, wicked and delicious.
