e. e. cummings Quotes

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

e. e. cummings

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• I want to make smart choices.

  

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• You know, children philosophize more than adults - and they are critical of adults.

  

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• Once you become poor, tired and time-constrained, you become a much better human being.

  

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• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

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• The reason our games generate so much revenue is because we're stupid enough to charge $60 for a box or $50 for a download or something. You need used games because most people can't afford those prices.

  

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• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

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• NASA projects often have romantic names that link into a long history of exploration and adventure: Atlantis and Discovery, for example.

  

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• When I lived in Egypt, we always wore kaftans. I had cashmere kaftans from Halston. You put on a kaftan in your backyard, and it's like you're in Ibiza.

  

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• We have people around the world who live in the United States, and these people don't deserve to be called traitors.

  

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• Guys understand a waistline. They understand a silhouette.

  

  L'Wren Scott
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• A disciplined person is one who follows the will of the one who gives the orders.

  

  Vince Lombardi
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• If I had a robot friend, he or she would be electric.

  

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• My co-stars call me selfish. They say, 'You are only interested in yourself and what you are only interested is yourself and what you are doing in front of the camera.' I reply, 'I can't help it; it's what got me where I am.'

  

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• When 'Attachments' came out and people liked it, I'd have a warm feeling of having made a connection.

  

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• I think I've found a purpose in acting; it's something I truly love and truly enjoy. It makes me happy. It makes me understand more about life, in front of the camera, than what I'm living beyond the camera.

  

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• After the failure in '92, my goal was to be a good pole vaulter. I used that as motivation.

  

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• People think I only wear new clothes, that I'm very trendy, but I like classic things on me, to mix with a trendy pair of shoes.

  

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• I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

  

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• This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and dependent on the leaves. By leaves we live.

  

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• I think the only way that political system can be corrected is for the American people to see very vividly that it needs repair. If things are going to worse in the future, the American people, in every congressional district in the land, might demand that reforms take place in the political system.

  

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• ... we become so accustomed to meet with injustice, and, if we are at all sincere with our own hearts, are so conscious of being guity of it ourselves, that we learn to look upon it almost as a necessity.

  

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell
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• No data on air propellers was available, but we had always understood that it was not a difficult matter to secure an efficiency of 50% with marine propellers.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Air
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• Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

  

  e. e. cummings