Ezra Pound Quotes
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The love of Louis XVI for mechanical works is well known. He had a little workshop at Versailles where he amused himself making locks, assisted by Francois Gamain, to whom he was much attached and with whom he spent many hours in projecting and executing mechanical contrivances.
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Right now, I'm known for making movies. And I wonder if that's it. I don't know. It doesn't feel like it to me.
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No damn man kills me and lives.
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I make things of my own that aren't that glam, but I'm not known for that, which has always been a bit of a frustration for me.
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Traditional television as we have known it will make love to the Internet and have a child. That child will be the future. It's already happening, and it's hot!
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Damn referees, I'll miss them less than anybody.
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I've known Pinchas Zukerman since he was a teenager.
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I've always known that singing was some sort of calling for me. It comes naturally.
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It's hard being such a powerful woman in the business. I'm known for not always being warm and fuzzy, because you'll just get bulldozed over.
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I don't give a damn about marriage. But I do care about honor.
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I had known a couple of people who had died, but the loss of my mother contained something of the profoundly unknowable.
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The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything.
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I was known for throwing knives.
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To be rich is to give; to give nothing is to be poor; to live is to love; to love nothing is to be dead; to be happy is to devote oneself; to exist only for oneself is to damn oneself, and to exile oneself to hell.
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I've always kind of known what I like and what I don't. And never felt any pressure to wear certain things or watch certain things... It's hard to explain, but I've just always felt it.
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You can be the coldest rapper, but if you're not known, you're nobody.
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It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.
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All learning is derived from things previously known.
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We find that the statements of science are not of what is true and what is not true, but statements of what is known with different degrees of certainty: "It is very much more likely that so and so is true than that it is not true".
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Our lives are not just measured in years. They are measured in the lives we touch around us.
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When the modern movement began, starting perhaps with the paintings of Manet and the poetry of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, what distinguished the modern movement was the enormous honesty that writers, painters and playwrights displayed about themselves. The bourgeois novel flinches from such notions.
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I have never known anyone worth a damn who wasn't irascible.
