Yusef Komunyakaa Quotes
It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
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I love being a woman and I was not one of these women who rose through professional life by wearing men's clothes or looking masculine. I loved wearing bright colors and being who I am.
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I think there is a real misconception about Indian food being super spicy. And I know that's because when you go into an Indian restaurant, it is pretty spicy. But it doesn't have to be. In fact, my husband can't handle a lot of heat. I've had to temper my cooking so that he can eat with me.
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Bogart could have been color blind. He got to know a man before he decided if he liked him or not.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I say to my colleagues never confine your best work, your hopes, your dreams, the aspiration of the American people to what will be signed by George W. Bush because that is too limiting a factor.
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I don't think a lot of actors talk about it, but there's usually a process where you essentially purge yourself of the character that you played prior to the movie.
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I'm ambitious, I want to play in the Champions League, and that's the aim with Tottenham - to start qualifying for the Champions League on a consistent basis.
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.
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I want to win football games.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are compelled to think about motivation.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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Personally I feel, for me, it's tough to do Botox - but it's also tough not to! Sometimes, I think I need the help. Whatever anyone else chooses is fine with me - no judgment.
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The world is slowly evolving into a place where the things that we have seen as being taboo are starting to open up a bit more.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I do love dance music. I love Daft Punk. I mean, I was a child in the '80s, so bands like the Eurythmics and just so many great '80s bands were dance bands, but they had the whole soul thing happening, too.
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There is no bigger crime, in the English comic novel, than thinking you are right.
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I always see my wife as the clever one, as the wise one in the family.
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I never said I was the best in anything. I never said I'm an icon. The world decides all of that.
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It wasn't a deliberate decision to become a poet. It was something I found myself doing - and loving. Language became an addiction.
