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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I love clothes, but I love them in a very 'regular person' way.
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I can't sleep without knowing there's hope. Half the night I waste in sighs. In a wakeful doze I sorrow. For the hands, for the lips... the eyes. For the meeting of tomorrow.
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What is the danger in the personalization era? Psychologists call it confirmation bias—“a tendency to believe things that reinforce our existing views, to see what we want to see.” What happens when we encounter new information that contradicts our beliefs? Researchers at Stanford monitored subjects’ brain activity to trace how they responded to cognitive dissonance. Democracy is endangered when we only listen to people we agree with.
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It took five days to drive to Los Angeles by myself. I listened to Abbey Road for six hours at a time and watched the desert open up before me again and again. I saw the sun set and rise at the Grand Canyon, and I sang out over the cliffs, picked up tumble weeds along the way and threw them in the back of my car.
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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
