e. e. cummings Quotes
there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
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We want to use the environment to shift the way our society works.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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For me, 'The Brady Bunch' is just a part of the fabric of my career, but for a lot of people, that's it.
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A perfectly straight shot with a big club is a fluke.
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The winner of the hoop race will be the first to realize her dream, not society's dream, her own personal dream.
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I love cycling.
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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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I saw what the Depression was doing to my students. Often they could get no jobs, or jobs which were wholly inadequate. And through them, I began to understand how deeply political and economic events could affect men's lives. I began to feel the need to participate more fully in the life of the community.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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In America it's live by the sword of freedom of expression and be will to die by it as well.
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I don't want to be an actor or nothing but if I have to, I'll act if it's the right thing.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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And of course I've got kids of my own now, and they love me being in the Harry Potter films. I'm now part of a phenomenon. You become incredibly cool to your kids, and you get a young fan base. So you became the cool dad at school. You're suddenly hip.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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Middle English is an exciting field - almost uncharted, I begin to think, because as soon as one turns detailed personal attention on to any little corner of it, the received notions and ideas seem to crumple up and fall to pieces - as far as language goes, at any rate.
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In any case, his judgment and set of values, acting alone or through his assistants, determine not only what is gold and what is dross but the design of the history which he creates out of the metal. The historian decides what is significant, and what is not.
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I don't believe in God, but I'm afraid of Him.
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I sold steaks over the phone in Omaha, Nebraska. Marbling, fantastic. That's what makes a great steak; a lot of people don't know.
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I think everyone is most confident when they are just being themselves and not trying to impress others.
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Being British, I don't want to be all paranoid and arrogant and think people are looking at me because, really, I'm nothing.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.
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We were all blocked from western media, outside information. We were captured in a virtual prison cell. People would disappear in the middle of the night - not every day, but sometimes. We hear about it, and we never knew what happened inside the prison camps. I learned about them after I escaped.
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there's time for laughing and there's time for crying— for hoping for despair for peace for longing —a time for growing and a time for dying: a night for silence and a day for singing but more than all(as all your more than eyes tell me)there is a time for timelessness
