e. e. cummings Quotes
Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.
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When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.
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When I saw Arnold say that he didn't need a union, because people in his position don't need it, I thought, this is a very naive way to present yourself. It's also kinda dumb about making movies. It doesn't realize how the union movement even helps the star.
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Are we not all desperate one way or another?
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Either you are extrovert or introvert, and so I am an introvert in that sense. I'm not a social person that wants to go to parties.
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We have these old fashioned ideas. For instance, here in America, we talk about democracy - but we don't have a democracy. There are elements of a democracy.
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I try to write down every song that comes to me, even though I know that every song that comes to me isn't a song that I need to sing.
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I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
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I would love to be a dad. For the longest time, I've wanted kids, but you have to have the right setup, right?
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The challenge to America is to extend to Asia the defensive shield of American power in forms consonant with Asian freedom and self-respect.
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I regard it as a waste of time to think only of selling: one forgets one's art and exaggerates one's value.
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You have to have something worth saying and then the ability to say it- writing's a double skill, really.
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It is Earlier Than We Think.
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As far as I'm concerned we are all God That's the difference If you really think another guy is God he doesn't lock you up Funny about that.
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He always violated your expectations. … He was a character.
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I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force.
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Progress' constant companion is nostalgia for the way things used to be.
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I have something that I call my Golden Rule. It goes something like this: 'Do unto others twenty-five percent better than you expect them to do unto you.' … The twenty-five percent is for error.
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I am a trained, professional stunt driver. I'm a great driver.
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My mother missed having dinner with Lyndon Johnson because she couldn't find the right hat to wear. While my father went off to the white house to break bread with the President, my mother, who's not a things and stuff person, stayed at the hotel and tried on 10 different hats and missed dinner.
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A feast is more fatal to love than a fast, and a surfeit than a starvation.
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All the time you're saying to yourself, 'I could do that, but I won't,'--which is just another way of saying that you can't.
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Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.
