Edith Sitwell Quotes
The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
Quotes to Explore
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The future is always the same, and that is to win trophies - next season, in two and three years.
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.
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Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.
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Israel has a fantastic film industry, and many times we are known for our political films or films that have to do with the army. I love the fact that we can show that there are films coming out of Israel that are just for fun.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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There's a place in me that can really relate to being the underdog.
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I met Powel Crosley at an All-Star Game in 1935. He was familiar, of course, with our winning record at Rochester. We seemed to hit it off immediately, and the following year, when he was looking for a successor to Larry MacPhail, he thought of me.
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I just feel like the days of a handful of executives making the decisions for the entirety of the human public have gone on long enough.
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It is a sore point, because you do have advantages if you have access to more than one language. You also have problems, because on bad days you don't trust yourself, either in your first or your second language, and so you feel like a complete halfwit.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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The bell. It was already time to part, to go to bed. The bell regulated everything. It gave me orders and I executed them blindly. I hated that bell. Whenever I happened to dream of a better world, I imagined a universe without a bell.
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My parents split up, and a lot of things going on in the outside world made me want to immerse myself in an alternative world.
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When we talk about democracy, if the people's stomach is empty, democracy is also empty. Democracy can not be installed by fiat; it must be achieved by the people themselves.
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What is firmly rooted cannot be pulled out.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
