John Crowe Ransom Quotes
It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
Quotes to Explore
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I've never been one to sit around and eat my heart out. Life's too short.
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The media can allege corruption, but if I do the same against the media, I am gagging freedom of expression.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I have observed, through many years of living in north Brooklyn, that people, for example an ostensible group of friends, can be dangerous to one another.
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Winning a gold medal is not easy but I believed in myself, especially over the last four years.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I love dive bars, old movie theaters, live music and good food. The simplest things in life for me are the most important.
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Kevin Bacon and I went up for the same stuff, and people would say, 'You and Kevin have the same quality.' I was like, 'I do?' I remember seeing 'Footloose' and thinking, 'How do I have any kind of quality that that guy does?'
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I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.
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If there is on earth a house with many mansions, it is the house of words.
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I have my outlet for my humor through my characters, and I also have the intimacy of rapport with my fans that allows me to explain my philosophy and spirituality.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I've always said that I'll know when I've gone too far because I won't be able to sit down and watch it with my father.
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What I expect of a movie reviewer is that he should love cinema as much as I do.
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Do whatever you have to do to be happy.
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The role of humankind is to use the cultural and social environment it has created to devise new global values.... Human relations with nature are intimately bound up in interpersonal relations and with the relation of the self and its inner life.
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I think music will always be a big part of my life. I can't go five minutes without singing, sometimes unconsciously. And people stare at me, and I'm wondering why they're staring, and then I'm realizing that I'm belting out a tune.
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It is a miracle of harmony, of the adaptation of the free inner life to the outward necessity of things.
