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, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong.
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They're flowing out of Cook into the fringes. People move out of Chicago and into suburban Cook County and now they're losing to the outer suburbs.
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I think it's the ego in us that screws us up.
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Power loves not the light of day, nor the attention of curious eyes. In darkness it thrives most...A lord may send his army hither and thither, but the true testing of his power is in those places where his army is not...Has he sent its long fingers far enough through the backstreets and alleys, into the drinking dens and the lending-houses, so that he may gather them unto himself and hold them firm without a single swordsman?
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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
