Philip Levine Quotes
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
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Open-source encyclopedias such as Wikipedia and search engines such as Google and Bing, which people can tap into anytime and anywhere via computers and smart phones, put a world of knowledge at our fingertips at a lower cost than ever before.
Naveen Jain
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
Damon Albarn
Blur
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I decided it was time to pay tribute to my own songs, to give them the opportunity to mature and be adult.
Nanci Griffith
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Any time you end a relationship, and everyone has ended plenty in their life, it's always a tough thing and hard to get over.
Adam Brody
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
Okky Madasari
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During the first million years of its existence, mankind survived five apocalypses without succumbing to extinction. It endured the Apocalypse of Steel, the Apocalypse of Hydrogen, the Apocalypse of Serotonin, and both Apocalypses of Water, the second of which occurred despite certain contracts to the contrary.
Rachel Swirsky
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The troops aren't red and blue. They're not black and white. They're not male and female. They are Americans! When they put their uniforms on, they are Americans. And that's a fact.
Tamron Hall
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I always say I write my own novels and the characters don't take control of me, but in fact, I look at the characters in the early stages and I think, 'What is he or she like,' and they slowly come together and they become the person they are.
A. S. Byatt
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
Felicity Jones
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The 3-point shot has created a situation in the game akin to 'Lotto' fever.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
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I read pretty eclectically - fiction, non-fiction, and poetry - and I've been inspired and influenced by a number of writers.
Barry Eisler
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With all of the qualities of the scene-setting, the dialogue, the place and time and the time and place in which your characters move. And I want to move with the characters, move with them and describe the world in which they are living.
Gay Talese
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The question on my husband's birthday is always, What do you get for the man who has nothing?
Pamela Druckerman
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I think people who sit around and are always yearning for the next thing are not always the happiest people.
George Osborne
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Like her Mary, let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today.
Mother Teresa
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I love being a mother. I think it's the best thing I've ever done, and I personally feel that it's had a very positive effect on my work. I think it's an encouraging force for creativity, it feeds creativity - it did for me, certainly.
Kate Bush
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There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.
Lafcadio Hearn
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
