Burl Ives Quotes
The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
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Our franchises have never been healthier. Our league, in terms of its economic footing, has never been healthier.
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The PBSI (Indonesian Badminton Association) have to work harder to widen the pool and find quality players. The present indifferent culture has to change.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I see a deep connection between peace and change: peace always starts from within, for communities and people alike. The same is true of change: real change starts from within.
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Give a boy address and accomplishments and you give him the mastery of palaces and fortunes where he goes.
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I enjoyed climbing with other people, good friends, but I did quite a lot of solo climbing, too.
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All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Old people are scary. And I have to face it. I am old and I am scary.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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David Lynch is like that - every sound, every detail to the end of making the film, he never gives up. It has to be perfect.
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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.
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Without understanding yourself, what is the use of trying to understand the world?
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I always have a million things going on at once, but I try to put my energy into the most immediate need.
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To me, being in your prime means playing your best and feeling your best, too.
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I won't name any names, but I've done a couple of shows where once the pilot got picked up, the creators openly said, 'I have no idea where we're going.'
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Cool pools from a tired land sink now in the peace of evening Clouds weaken and die. The sun, an orange skull, whispers quietly, becomes an island, & is gone. There they are watching us everything will be dark. The light changed. We were aware knee-deep in the fluttering air as the ships move on trains in their wake.
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I find a lot of poetry very disappointing, but I do have poets that I go back to. One book of poetry that I'd like to mention is 'The Exchange' by Sophie Cabot Black. Her poems are difficult without being too difficult.
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It would be great if you could cool the water and immobilise the molecules, though keeping the structure, because when it's frozen, when it's immobilised, you can have it in the electron microscope and the water will not evaporate because in the electron microscope, it must be under vacuum, and water at normal temperature evaporates.
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It's a sad and stupid thing to have to proclaim yourself a revolutionary just to be a decent man.
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The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life.
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The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.
