Paul Muldoon Quotes
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As covetousness is the root of all evil, so poverty is the worst of all snares.
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There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
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Whether people like it or not, China is incredibly important to the future of mankind. For me, this is something that we all need to have intelligent discussions about in America, in Britain, in Europe.
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Each person feels that he is an 'expert' in one or two fields and just the 'public' in all the others. But you know, probably, from experience that no one is really able to appreciate any display of ability in any field if he himself has not, to a certain degree, taken part in its problems and difficulties at some time.
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Right now too much American time and resources are spent dealing with situations caused by our dependence on oil that we import from unstable countries.
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I was lucky that I started very young, since I had a very clear idea of what I wanted to do. But my father is very conservative, and he never considered fashion to be a real career but something I could pursue as a hobby. He wanted me to be a doctor, and at one point, I thought of becoming a plastic surgeon.
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If you're smart and you care about life, you'll take driving seriously.
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The big turning point, really, was the Beatles' influence on American folk music, and then Roger took it to the next step, and then along came the Lovin' Spoonful and everybody else.
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There's no one on this earth taken less seriously in a leadership context than a young woman - everything is against you.
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We have the only cookbook in the world that has partial differential equations in it.
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Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
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I can't think of any more powerful moment than when you stand on a stage.
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I played soccer, recreationally, in college.
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I think any actor should be aware of where they're starting to stretch into what's not truthful.
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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
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We all have different perspectives on the world. I'm a woman. I live in Chicago. I'm gay.
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Separate inherently is not equal. There's a reason why $45 million was spent against marriage equality. It's because people understand the word does have meaning. And equality comes when we accept the same notions and the same institutions for everyone, regardless of race and gender and regardless of sex orientation.
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I feel curious about every situation I'm in.
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'Habibi' is a complex and unapologetic work of fantasy - no idle undertaking for readers of any faith or no faith at all, but one well worth the trouble.
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Everything I learned as an actor, I have basically applied to writing.
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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
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It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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I would get up at 3 in the morning and write. Or sometimes I would write at midnight. Or I would write when my child napped. It wasn't a burden. I was so enthused about what I was doing at the time that I really didn't mind.
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I'm sure 50 percent of television ads use rhyme.
