Paul Muldoon Quotes
That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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I wouldn't say I'm vain - I'm just in a job where the way you look is important. Well, at least the facelift wasn't vanity, but the hair was.
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I don't want to hear about my death.
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I don't actually think there has ever been too much emphasis on what I am wearing.
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The idea that somebody is going to come in and make your debt go away and all be well for the future is really a fantasy.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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We must not be hampered by yesterday's myths in concentrating on today's needs.
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If I go to Singapore, I have friends there. If they came to Zambia, they'd feel the same way. I've made connections, and I have friends in many, many countries.
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I was under contract to Paramount. They wanted to make me into somebody which I was not. So I got so scared and rebelled, so they threw me out of the studio.
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I'll treat myself every now and then. Like if I get $100,000, I'll spend $20,000 and put the rest away.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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I would be a terrible person to be in a relationship with because I'm either sleeping or at the theater.
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Lawyers are the first refuge of the incompetent.
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It is the grace of God, that shows and condemns the sin that humbles us.
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I'm filming the next two installments of the 'Fifty Shades' movies back-to-back.
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'Pastoralia' by George Saunders is one of my favorite novels.
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Thinking will not overcome fear but action will.
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Being called 'conscious' is a great thing to be, but it's the connotations and preconceived notions that come with the buying audience about what conscious music can be.
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I was always told yogurt had to be sweet to appeal to Americans. But when people go to Turkey or Greece, within 15 minutes of their return, they start talking about how much they enjoyed the yogurt there.
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As a rule projection in some areas can only be achieved by those who are living their last earthly cycle.
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Aristotle ... imputed this symphony of the heavens ... this music of the spheres to Pythagorus. ... But Pythagoras alone of mortals is said to have heard this harmony ... If our hearts were as pure, as chaste, as snowy as Pythagoras' was, our ears would resound and be filled with that supremely lovely music of the wheeling stars.
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I've got children and it's still this one thing that I feel incredibly proud about, when my children are in the playground with their friends and they know about 'Doctor Who'. It's a great feeling. I can sit down with them and watch the new 'Doctor' with my kids.
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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.
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That's one of the great things about poetry; one realises that one does one's little turn - that you're just part of the great crop, as it were.
