Carlos Drummond de Andrade Quotes
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
Yara Shahidi
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Nobody wanted to believe Jack Ma.
Jack Ma
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The older I get, the more I embrace who I am.
K. D. Lang
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There's not an American in this country free until every one of us is free.
Jackie Robinson
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I've made club songs, and I've made radio songs, and I've made the car songs.
T-Pain
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I love how easy it is to run my business, Writing Workshops Los Angeles, with the help of email and my website. I love that I don't have to use cuneiform, a quill, or a typewriter to write my novels - I love to write on my laptop!
Edan Lepucki
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It's better to make fun of yourself because you've always got someone around to make fun of, and they can't sue you.
P. J. O'Rourke
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Quickly, after I landed in England, I found out ways to get scholarships. England turned out to be a very encouraging place for me.
Zhang Xin
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So I just got on the phone and the engineer just patched me in and I did reports. I'd get a community leader and bring him to the phone, call up the station and do an interview over the phone with the guy.
Ed Bradley
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In China, the rules of the market are not always that transparent. So it's very hard. Also, the national TV networks are all owned by the government, so our shows are subject to censorship by the networks. Every now and then, we are told that certain subjects cannot be talked about. There are frustrations.
Yang Lan
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I am ready to fight according to the rules, and I ask for the opportunity to prove myself.
Yingluck Shinawatra
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Master of the universe is every man's potential insight, cosmic potential.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
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L.A. is my office. I come here for work and work only.
Sam Claflin
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It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.
B. C. Forbes
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Poetry is really about your mental state or intellectual, and where you are, and you're trying to evoke that, explain it to yourself, whatever, you're trying to dig into it, analyse yourself.
Jonathan Galassi
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Children when they ask you why your mama so funny say she is a poet she don't have no sense
Lucille Clifton
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Greece, sound, thy Homer's, Rome thy Virgil's name, But England's Milton equals both in fame.
William Cowper
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Poetry is necessary, but is the poet?
Carlos Drummond de Andrade