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 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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It might be that to surrender to happiness was to accept defeat, but it was a defeat better than many victories.
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So many people are looking at what's wrong, and I try to encourage them to look at what's right in their life. A lot of people have it a lot worse than you do.
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I think whenever you see what may be the seeds of a third party, you need to be very skeptical because there's not a very good track record for third parties.
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There is a poetry in making preserves; the housewife has caught duration in the snare of sugar, she has enclosed life in jars.
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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.
