e. e. cummings Quotes
I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
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Words aren't very good at describing complicated, strange visual things. You can try, and the reader will have some sort of image in their mind, but words aren't good at that.
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The John Birch Society is not ultra-conservative, communist-hating, and racist as opponents paint it.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today.
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I love film, but it's bringing me away from music. Singing is what I'm probably most passionate about.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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If the future, as imagined in literature, is really the present taken to extremes, then the past is also the present, but boiled down.
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My grandparents lived in Hollywood, and I was surrounded by the romanticism of movies ever since I was a child.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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I wish black people had a flag they could put into the ground, like when the troops stormed Iwo Jima.
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Keeping in touch with the people that matter is important.
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We cannot afford idleness, waste or inefficiency.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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Privacy isn't negotiable. It's the right of every American.
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I don't particularly like L.A.
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The best players I have seen and known have confidence in their teammates. They know that basketball's not a one-man game. That confidence brings out the best in everybody, because it's contagious.
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Now that I can see it's the queen's new clothes Now that I can hear all your poison prose Now that I can talk with my tongue unfroze I'm not so sure of Santa or the buck tooth fairy There are no words for me inside your dictionary
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I give him all the respect in the world. He is the No. 1 player in the league, by far. It’s like that. With a player like him, he just wants that challenge. He’s just that fierce competitor. He doesn’t want to get out-showed. He’s the one who everybody’s afraid of.
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I've had the healthy and sobering experience of constantly working with music that is invariably better than any performance of it can be.
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I wanted to like 'Up in the Air' - I like Jason Reitman - but Vera Farmiga left me cold.
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Think'st thou there are no serpents in the worldBut those who slide along the grassy sod,And sting the luckless foot that presses them?There are who in the path of social lifeDo bask their spotted skins in Fortune's sun,And sting the soul.
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I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness
