Mary Karr Quotes
Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
Mary Karr
Quotes to Explore
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The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.
Van Morrison
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The tomb sits on a large marble platform, called a plinth. At each corner of this platform is a minaret (a tall, narrow tower from which a Muslim calls the devout to prayer). It is this building which is called the Taj Mahal, although the name often refers to the whole complex.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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If you want boots on the ground, and you want them to be our sons and daughters, you got 14 other choices. There will always be a Bush or Clinton for you, if you want to go back to war in Iraq. But the thing is, the first war was a mistake. And I'm not sending our sons and our daughters back to Iraq.
Rand Paul
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By making college more affordable for all and more accessible for minority students, the first new higher education authorizing legislation in a decade will help strengthen our nation and America's middle class, and spur a new age of innovation and ingenuity in our country.
Nancy Pelosi
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Works which endure come from the soul of the people. The mighty in their pride walk alone to destruction. The humble walk hand in hand with providence to immortality. Their works survive.
Calvin Coolidge
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To endeavour to work upon the vulgar with fine sense, is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.
Alexander Pope
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It would make everything I worked for meaningless if baseball is integrated but political parties were segregated.
Jackie Robinson
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Of course I wanted an agent from the time I was like 5, but my mother was like, 'No, you're going to be normal, you're going to go to school, you're going to get good grades, you're going to play soccer, and if you do well, if you keep your grades up, you can do one community-theater show a year.'
Laura Benanti
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A lot of the time, when people meet someone in a wheelchair, or with some disability, it's the first thing they notice, but they don't know how to react.
Zach Anner
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Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
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Immortal is an ample word When what we need is by, But when it leaves us for a time, ’T is a necessity.Of heaven above the firmest proof We fundamental know, Except for its marauding hand, It had been heaven below.
Emily Dickinson
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Every poem probably has sixty drafts behind it.
Mary Karr
