Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.Yusef Komunyakaa
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My view is that innovation has declined in the everyday processes that businesses tinker with incrementally as they try to become more productive over time.
Edmund Phelps -
A horse never runs so fast as when he has other horses to catch up and outpace.
Ovid -
I think it's fun to look at people with big diamonds. I see them in my audience all the time, with the fur coat, a woman whose hand is always out front, or the two fingers are on the cheek to show her diamond. I don't have anything against that.
Eartha Kitt -
I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.
Warren Kole -
When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
Viggo Mortensen -
I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
Dani Shapiro -
We all serve a purpose. My purpose isn't to be rejected. My purpose isn't to think small or to be introverted. This door closed is literally pushing me to the next door.
Nate Parker -
My dad is afraid of my laugh.
Halston Sage -
The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.
S. Jay Olshansky -
The purpose of a business is to create customers.
Sam Wyly
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I think we're the first generation to successfully integrate American society.
Ted Rall -
Eddie Haas talked a lot about not hitting the ball in the air.
Dale Murphy -
I'm not any kind of a bigot, I'm not.
Samuel Alito -
The Arab Spring I think we will look back whether it's two years, five years, ten or fifteen. And say it's a good thing.
Abdullah II of Jordan -
I swear to the Lord, I still can't see, why Democracy means, everybody but me.
Langston Hughes -
I'm not a politician, I'm not an ideologue, I'm not an organizer anymore. I'm a human being sharing ideas, and those ideas have to feel fresh and from my heart and my head, and I have to feel it. You can't force that feeling.
Hari Kondabolu
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
Alice Duer Miller -
There are many reasons for keeping a diary: to make a note of facts that one considers important; to open one's heart, to give vent to one's feelings, to make confessions; from the instinct of economy which sometimes encourages a writer to make good use of even the smallest crumbs of his life, so that he may have one more book to publish; or again from vanity and self- satisfaction.
Alberto Moravia -
The most important influence in my childhood was my father.
DeForest Kelley -
Poets are seen as the caretakers of language, so working with words no matter what the form is what we do.
Yusef Komunyakaa