Franz Wright Quotes

The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

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• In the globalized world that is ours, maybe we are moving towards a global village, but that global village brings in a lot of different people, a lot of different ideas, lots of different backgrounds, lots of different aspirations.

  

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• I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.

  

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• The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

  

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• Horseback riding is my passion. Other than work. People can't imagine me getting dirty, but that's what I love about it.

  

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• I think what history has done to Jewish people, frankly, cannot be made good by giving them a piece of land.

  

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• I always give RZA that support as far as saying he brought Wu-Tang to the table. It was his philosophy. He picked certain dudes to be part of this group, and he said, 'This is what it's going to be called.'

  

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• I'm a comedian, and my comedy has never endorsed violence towards gays.

  

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• There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no one independence quite so important, as living within your means.

  

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• Remember you don't do anything in isolation.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
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• I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

  

  e. e. cummings
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• No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking.

  

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• What you start learning is that to get over a breakup, you kind of have to live through the emotions and not run away from it because then it lasts longer.

  

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• Always stay true to yourselves.

  

  Naima Adedapo
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• I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• 'It makes me madder than a hornet to be disbelieved,' she explained.

  

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• Even to this day, I rarely read any articles on myself. I won't watch anything on television on myself.

  

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• I was an only child and I had a mother and father who were just - there wasn't a straight man in the house, and I mean that in a very nice way. They were fun, and we would laugh a lot.

  

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• Every person I see has a story to tell.

  

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• Romantic comedies seem to take over where the fairytales of childhood left off, feeding our dreams of a soulmate; though, sadly, the Hollywood endings prove quite elusive in the real world.

  

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• I grew up at a time in Hawaii where there were trans women around, so there were visible role models for me. At the same time, as a low-income trans girl of color, there were so many things that I didn't have access to. I didn't have access to a great education. I didn't have access to affordable healthcare.

  

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• The fourfold root of the principle of sufficent reason is "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
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• So often we think, well, kids learn to read at school, I don't have to be responsible for that. But in fact they learn to love reading at home, and therefore it's really important that we as parents preserve the joy of reading by supporting them and reading things that speak to their hearts, books that they love.

  

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• The poetic prose that most interests me is that of Henri Michaux.

  

  Franz Wright