Joyce Kilmer Quotes
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A pitcher is only as good as his legs.
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I love the streets, and the streets love me back. And when things ain't going the way they should go, they let you know... and when they happy, you gotta keep 'em happy.
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I've lived a very nomadic life, which I enjoy.
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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You can't force something like that. But we have encouraged our audience, because we avoid the confrontation of regular rock concerts: us up here, you down there. Instead, we're looking for interaction.
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I knew everything in the forest. I had a secret home tree, where I pretty much lived. I also liked rooftops and streetlamps. My parents would get calls saying 'He's out there again.'
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I don't feel like I have to apologize for being a technophile, ever. Technology is awesome and lets me do so much. Nor do I feel like I have to apologize for loving my work.
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When I first came to Hollywood, I could not break into movies.
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Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free!
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There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power.
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I'm playing a cat burglar. I've made it. This is the high point of my career. I'm really chuffed.
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Concerning river runners: If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.
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Politics is not about power.
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We don't change what we are, we change what we think what we are.
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Every fight has been hard. Every world title I've won has been hard fought, and every European title I've won has been hard fought as well.
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I do sarcasm really poorly.
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Here's what's nice about life: Sometimes you have ideas and for the most part, they're not good ones. And then you'll follow through with a handful of them and sometimes you'll be pretty disappointed. And then other times you'll follow through and you'll go, 'You know what? It's nice to be right.'
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That's why I love philosophy: no one wins.
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I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail.
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I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.
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So would I, if I were Parmenion.
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Where are the real sources of human dignity, freedom and modern democracy, if not in the concept of infinity to which all men are equal?
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I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.
