Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes

I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

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• At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.

  

  Tabitha Soren
  • Humor
  • Going
  • Grandparents

• I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Believe
  • Government
  • Purpose

• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• I started cooking seven years ago for real, and I started with pasta, and lasagna and roast chicken. Very normal American dishes. When I turned on Food Network, or any sort of cooking channel, that's what people were making. So that's where your education comes from.

  

  Aarti Sequeira
  • People
  • Real
  • American

• 'The HoneyLine' is my web site and TV segments that were birthed out of the stark reality that we all need a few people to help navigate this life.

  

  Gabrielle Reece
  • People
  • Life
  • Help

• We are not interested in cloning the Michael Jordans and the Michael Jacksons of this world. The rich and the famous don't participate in this.

  

  Panayiotis Zavos
  • World
  • Famous
  • Rich

• I'm working on a movie called 'Labor Day' with Kate Winslet while still balancing kite boarding. Being an actress and an athlete is a challenge, but I'm excited to see what happens.

  

  Maika Monroe
  • Movie
  • Day
  • Challenge

• The muses visit when I'm lonely.

  

  Taylor Hicks
  • Lonely
  • Visit
  • Muses

• I've been doing this since 2011, when I started on Instagram. Building my presence on there was important to my brand, but I wanted to take my audience to other platforms, so I then crossed over to Twitter second, then YouTube third. It wasn't until I made my fourth crossover to a different platform that I went to Vine.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • Different
  • Important
  • Building

• I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • Truth
  • Dream

• In the tech world, you can reel off great products in several ways. You can have the once-in-a-lifetime gut instincts of a Steve Jobs. You can have the brainiac coding skills of a Bill Gates, Larry Page, or Sergey Brin. Or, I learned, you can have the deep intellectual curiosity and stubbornness of a Jeff Bezos.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Great
  • Deep

• Some people have a misunderstanding about the Army. Some people think, 'Hey, you're in the military, and everything is super-hierarchical, and you're in an environment that is intolerable of criticism, and people don't want frank assessments.' I think the opposite is the case.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • People
  • Think
  • Environment

• He who indulges in falsehood will find the paths of paradise shut to him.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Find
  • Paradise
  • Paths

• I am not an oligarch. I am a servant and I try to align my interests and those of my investors.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • Interests
  • Servant
  • Investors

• I've got that Beethoven energy, that Stravinsky energy. And it's all a gift from the Creator.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Energy
  • Gift
  • Creator

• Toronto is exploding with cyclists, with more and more people wanting to cycle and being turned off driving because of the incredible congestion. Biking is a much more efficient way of getting around, and you get there faster.

  

  Dan Hill
  • People
  • You
  • Driving

• I think that souls agree to come in and do what they're going to do and then leave when they're going to leave. So there's nothing tragic when a soul leaves. I think it was already preordained.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Soul
  • Think
  • Leave

• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • World
  • Need
  • Flying

• I know the government needs to ensure economic growth... we just hope it takes care of the environment, too.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Hope
  • Government
  • Environment

• He's so interesting because you think you know Dennis Hopper, but you don't really know Dennis Hopper. I don't really know Dennis Hopper, I just know him from the silver screen.

  

  Nathan Lane
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Know

• I always knew that I could go deep. How deep? I don't know. But it always seems that with each character I take on, I'm challenged to go deeper than the last time, and then again deeper than the last time. This is the deepest I've ever been asked to dive. And to see how deep I actually went for this, and that I wasn't afraid to go there in order to give Tyler exactly what he envisioned for the character, which was pretty deep, that's what I discovered about myself.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Character
  • Pretty

• In a painful time of my life I went often to a wooded hillside where May apples grew by the hundreds, and I thought the sourness of their fruit had a symbolism for me. Instead, I was to find both love and happiness soon thereafter. So to me [the May apple] is the mandrake, the love symbol, of the old dealers in plant restoratives.

  

  Hal Borland
  • Life
  • Time
  • May

• I don't invest in companies where my mental model is that they need to get themselves acquired in the next few years - or ever.

  

  Sam Altman
  • Years
  • Model
  • Invest

• I think of my poems as personal and public at the same time. You could say they serve as psychological overlays. One fits on top of the other, and hopefully there's an ongoing evolution of clarity.

  

  Yusef Komunyakaa
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