Maxine Kumin Quotes
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.Maxine Kumin
Quotes to Explore
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I don't like workouts that make you bulky.
Naomi Campbell -
I will do today what others won't so I can do tomorrow what others can't.
Ted Yoho -
The difference in the quality of medical care received by people with mental illness is one of the reasons why they live shorter lives than people without mental illness. Even in the best-resourced countries in the world, this life expectancy gap is as much as 20 years. In the developing countries of the world, this gap is even larger.
Vikram Patel -
In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
Ha-Joon Chang -
I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.
Zubin Mehta
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I love my career right now, and I won't be with anybody until they make my life as satisfying and as happy as my work makes me.
Olivia Munn -
My happy place is holding my daughter and my husband in the same hug. It really is. I'm getting emotional just thinking about it. I consider it such a privilege, and I know that I'm lucky. I never want to take it for granted.
Lake Bell -
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson -
Our mission was to make sure that the bad guys, basically, did not get nuclear weapons.
Valerie Plame -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Only in Washington does a decrease in the proposed increase equal a spending cut.
Larry Elder
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I first met Jimbo Wales, the face of Wikipedia, when he came to speak at Stanford.
Aaron Swartz -
Social peace requires reciprocity.
Ralph Peters -
The Jews would have us believe that God had this bias to this little small tribe in the middle of the Sinai Desert, and all the rest of humanity is just rubbish. I mean, that is the basic doctrine of the Jewish religion, and that's why it is a most racist religion.
Hamza Yusuf -
I'm glad I'm Southern. I'm the Southerner who's very Southern in that she left to move to New York.
Parker Posey -
You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.
Zac Efron -
I have to work really hard to get the record deal - I have to spend years at it to get good. I have to practice to be good at guitar.
Taylor Swift
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Nature can refuse to speak but she cannot give a wrong answer.
Charles Brenton Huggins -
It's always weird being the only white person in a group. It feels like everyone's looking to me for guidance.
Zach Braff -
It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
Nadia Comaneci -
Interviewer: If I gave you fifty dollars, right now, what would you do with it?David Byrne: I would get something to eat.
David Byrne Talking Heads -
When I started modeling, it was like, 'Oh, she's too dark,' and I kind of looked at them like, 'You're too daft.'
Alek Wek -
I have a vast 'bone pile' of stillborn or abandoned poems along with jottings and wisps from the great beyond that I tend to scan. Sometimes that leads somewhere, and sometimes the Muse is just on sabbatical.
Maxine Kumin