Paul Muldoon Quotes
The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
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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.
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I'm not the perfect model of what an athlete should be, mentally or physically.
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During my 8 years as chairman, I had the privilege to peer into the future to see dynamic citizen astronauts returning to and from the heavens which we can expect in the future.
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Today the Western powers and media want to domesticate us like sheep, to keep us tame and domesticated.
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I don't even like to go out onto the streets sometimes because I can't get anything done. People want pictures and autographs all the time.
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When we train a horse to do a certain job, we're training the horse to be like a soldier, and yes, he still has a spirit, and he still has his ideas, but he is a disciplined soldier, and in the end, he will follow the rider's instruction to do what needs to be done.
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The people have nothing to fear of me; people have never feared me.
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I'm a rock and roll singer.
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The National Security Council's real role is to coordinate the various activities of the government of the United States in the furtherance of American foreign policy.
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Nothing is so boring as having to keep up a deception.
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We shared our father with the world.
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I just don't think I've ever been comfortable at public functions and selling myself as an entity.
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Measuring nuclear yield depends on multiple parameters - the location and number of instruments, the geology of the area, the location of the seismic station in relation to the test site.
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From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.
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Life's too short when you find yourself sitting in a car for four hours every day trying to get from East L.A. to West L.A. to Hollywood and then back to East L.A.
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If of their pleasures and desires no end be found;God to their cares and fears will set no bound.What would content you? Who can tell?Ye fear so much to lose what you have gotAs if ye liked it well.Ye strive for more, as if ye liked it not.
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Better were it to be unborn than ill-bred.
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Oh, Bertie, if I ever called you a brainless poop who ought to be given a scholarship at some lunatic asylum, I take back the words.
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It's funny: when I go to a school and speak, and when they hear the back story about me, they want to go read the book.
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It was making me a little queasy. Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
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Daddy was like a lot of people who kind of turn their noses up when you say the word 'organic.'
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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Beware of the naked man who offers you his shirt.
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The point of poetry is to be acutely discomforting, to prod and provoke, to poke us in the eye, to punch us in the nose, to knock us off our feet, to take our breath away.
