Karl Shapiro Quotes
Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
Quotes to Explore
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More modern poetry is written than read.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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I'm a Ninja. I'm not scared of death.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Nobody was my support. You have to support yourself, and I think that is the beauty of being a woman. You can handle anything and be ten times better than men.
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The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
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In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird.
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What's the most humiliating thing? When you take someone to dinner or you cook somebody dinner and they get food poisoning. I mean, how bad do you feel?
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We must not sacrifice one of our remaining untamed places in reckless pursuit of oil. We know we have to leave oil in the ground, or destructive climate change will become unstoppable. If not in the pristine and vulnerable Arctic Ocean, then where?
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Any smart executive understands that to find the best talent she has to explore new territory that lies beyond familiar geography. That applies not only to gender, but also to race, religion, background and age.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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Instead of hazarding our future on the dirty fuels of the past, let's invest in clean power that can drive this country forward. Let's cut energy waste, make our economy the world's most efficient, and give our workers a leg up in the global marketplace.
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I think because people can't understand our style, they think it's a joke. Our music isn't intellectual - we make music for the common man.
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From early morning to late at night, it's such an interesting life, and I'm healthy and free, and that's not so easy with a family.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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I had a band with a girl in New York, and we would go around and do gigs. And then I happened to start getting work as an actress.
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One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.
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People, who accused me of practising a monopoly were wrong. The media fuelled rumours about my 'monopoly.' The first question I was always asked during interviews was about my supposed monopoly.
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Theology recognizes the contingency of human existence only to derive it from a necessary being, that is, to remove it. Theology makes use of philosophical wonder only for the purpose of motivating an affirmation which ends it. Philosophy, on the other hand, arouses us to what is problematic in our own existence and in that of the world, to such a point that we shall never be cured of searching for a solution.
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I've never once corrected someone who got my name wrong.
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Lastly, his tomb shall list and founder in the troughs of grass. And none shall speak his name.
