Karl Shapiro Quotes
Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.Karl Shapiro
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
Carice van Houten -
I feel like you are doing better for the world if you're honoring you because everything is getting the authentic you.
Taylour Paige -
A liberal public is interesting to have as an audience. It is for that very reason that corporations make such an effort to ally themselves with cultural institutions.
Hans Haacke -
I am an avid reader! As for writing, I might - someday. But we'll have to wait and see.
Zosia Mamet -
There was never an angry man that thought his anger unjust.
Saint Francis de Sales -
Hollywood so often likes to make movies that are just about itself. I felt there were a lot of stories that were yet to be told in the middle of the country, and I wanted to capture some of that beauty.
Sam Jaeger
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Jersey gets a bad rap. Most people make an assessment of this state on the ride from Newark Airport into Manhattan.
Eddie Trunk -
When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
Gary Vaynerchuk -
My hand is the extension of the thinking process - the creative process.
Tadao Ando -
Pigeons are among the most maligned urban wildlife despite the fact that human beings brought them to our shores and turned them loose in our cities - not something that they chose.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I think that people in general appreciate honesty and not trying to cook something up just to fit a mold that would be beneficial for you. I never made music like that.
Sam Hunt -
Even the best community organizations and faith-based initiatives and the extraordinary charity of Americans across the country can't carry the brunt of eliminating poverty.
Irwin Redlener
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It is certain that if you would have the whole secret of a people, you must enter into the intimacy of their religion.
Edgar Quinet -
I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.
Nate Diaz -
Music is its own language - if you don't speak it, it's hard to say what you're trying to do.
Anton Zaslavski -
I just think, certainly for live music it should look as good as it sounds.
Adam Ant Adam and the Ants -
I experienced American golf courses when I was younger and played a lot of USGA and AJGA tournaments.
Inbee Park -
I have some sweets now and then, but I wouldn't say I have a major sweet tooth.
Larry Fitzgerald
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I just want to keep writing music.
Lady Gaga -
My dad worked with Mary Jackson very closely at one point. I knew Katherine Johnson as well. They were all part of this group of black engineers and scientists within this larger NASA community.
Margot Lee Shetterly -
The best thing you can give yourselves...is the gift of possibility. And the best thing you can give each other is the pledge to go on protecting that gift in each other as long as you live.
Paul Newman -
Voting is completely important. People in America think democracy is a given. I think of it as an ecosystem, and what gets in the way of it is politicians and apathy.
Henry Rollins Black Flag -
Let me make the songs of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws.
Andy Fletcher Depeche Mode -
Influence is strange. Because one can be influenced powerfully in every way but technique. For instance, I would think Walt Whitman probably had more influence on my whole poetic thinking than anybody, but I never dreamed of trying to write in the Whitman manner.
Karl Shapiro