James Tate Quotes

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• He said, 'From then on, I realized that I was not just abandoned. I was chosen. I was special.' And I think that's the key to understanding Steve Jobs.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Think
  • Understanding
  • Key

• I was always very grateful I was never hot. In the entire length of my career, I haven't been the most adored.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Career
  • Always
  • Never

• Every month that we do not have an economic recovery package 500 million Americans lose their jobs.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Lose
  • Economic
  • Recovery

• This is what I love to do. And if pressure is something that comes with playing good golf, that's something a professional golfer has to handle.

  

  Inbee Park
  • Good
  • Professional
  • Playing

• If you ask me, over time, I am a believer in the Indian financial saving story getting stronger; a lot more savers are moving money away from gold and real estate into banks, mutual funds, insurance and equities.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Time
  • Real
  • Money

• When you write, you're inside the project. You can't really think about the reception. It has to be worth it even if no one reads it.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Think
  • Write
  • Worth

• I don't think of myself as a role model. I do try to live in a compassionate, considerate and positive way. The only advice I can offer is to find what you love to do, find the joy in it, and express yourself through your passion.

  

  Barry Williams
  • Live
  • Love
  • Passion

• Teetotallers lack the sympathy and generosity of men that drink.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Men
  • Sympathy
  • Generosity

• I want to promote the introduction of art history in primary schools and to convince the general public that, even in a period of economic crisis, arts funding is an absolute necessity at the federal, state, and local levels.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Art
  • History
  • Period

• I have a lot of friends that are ex-Miss Alabamas and ex-Miss Georgias.

  

  Fannie Flagg
  • Friends
  • Lot

• John Paul was the first modern pope to grow up in a secular culture: He attended public schools, danced with girls - indeed, as a teenager he had a crush on a beautiful Jewish girl who fled his hometown just ahead of the arrival of the Germans.

  

  Carl Bernstein
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • Girl

• It's funny landing parts now where I'm somebody's mum. I remember the first time I was asked to play a mum. I was easily old enough, but because I didn't have any children, I thought, 'That seems really grown-up.'

  

  Natasha Little
  • Up
  • Time
  • Children

• Threats that could wipe out the bulk of life on earth abound. Planetary catastrophe could come in the form of a killer asteroid impact, the eruption of massive supervolcanoes, a nearby gamma ray burst that sterilizes the earth, or by human-driven environmental collapse.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Impact

• One of the Republicans' major products is dream making. People are dying to get into this country... not out of it.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • People
  • Country
  • Dream

• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Dream
  • Dreams
  • Nothing

• I swear a lot; I always have. So does my husband. Our son, surprisingly, does not swear much at all.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Son
  • Husband

• There has been a kind of stereotypical 'gamer dude' that has been representative for the gamer community in the years past. But I want to spearhead or be a part of changing that.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Want
  • Past
  • Community

• I believe that I'm an actor to this day because of 'Star Wars.' I saw 'Star Wars' as a child, and I was completely enamored by it.

  

  J. August Richards
  • Believe
  • Day
  • Star

• People don't actually read newspapers. They step into them every morning like a hot bath. (p. 184)

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • People
  • Morning

• There is a vast difference between games and play. Play is played for fun, but games are deadly serious and you do not play them to enjoy yourself.

  

  Maurice Baring
  • Fun
  • Serious

• Science fiction properly conceived, like all serious fiction, however funny, is a way of trying to describe what is in fact going on, what people actually do and feel, how people relate to everything else in this vast sack, this belly of the universe, this womb of things to be and tomb of things that were, this unending story.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • People
  • Trying
  • Science

• I don't curse when I talk. Unless I'm mad.

  

  Ciara
  • Mad

• I can't know entirely what's at stake beforehand; you find out as you go. I love to take a poem, for instance, that starts with something seemingly frivolous or inconsequential and then grows in gravity until by the end it's something very serious.

  James Tate
  • Serious