Ezra Pound Quotes

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

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• I don't really feel like I have to have a debate with my husband over issues.

  

  Laura Bush
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• I personally do not drink. To drink or not to is one's own choice. So long as it doesn't affect others, it is okay.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Long
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• Diversity isn't just a hallmark of big cities anymore.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Diversity
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  • Big

• But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Person
  • Theory
  • Him

• It makes sense to have cameras in places where terrorism and crime are of particular concern - such as in Times Square or near major bridges and tunnels. It would be more troubling to learn, however, that the government has focused cameras on the front doors of our homes just to keep track of our comings and goings.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Government
  • Learn
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• In life go straight and turn right.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Life
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  • Turn

• When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Important
  • Money

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• You get rid of the fear of death by understanding that it is an integral fact of our existence. You do that through will and reason.

  

  G. Gordon Liddy
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Understanding

• One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish very much.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Person
  • Glory
  • Accomplish

• I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • Truth
  • Right
  • Wrong

• As an actor, there's a bit of you that's decided you want to be looked at and watched, but there's a paradoxical bit that wants to run away.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
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  • Run

• I guess I feel like it's a gift to meet those talented artists like George Lucas and Oliver Stone, Spike Lee and Richard Kelly. Even if it's a small role, it's a gift to be working that closely with them.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Small
  • Working
  • Gift

• I'm not totally sure what I want to be doing, but it's so fun to be on 'SNL' because you get exposed to so many different people and so many different experiences. It's a cool, lucky way to break into the business.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
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  • Different
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• Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

  

  R. W. Apple, Jr.
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• I had played the Virgin Mary in 'Jesus of Nazareth,' and I had done 'Juliet' at the age of 15. People said, 'Where do you go from playing Juliet and the Virgin Mary?' And I said, 'Mother Teresa of Calcutta.'

  

  Olivia Hussey
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• Most babies know how to win us over. We cannot help but smile at them and watch them smile back.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Help
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  • Smile

• I'm mad for satin.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • Mad
  • Satin

• Steve Jobs was a real rock star to me. I looked forward to his products like people look forward to albums.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Real
  • Rock

• Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Resistance
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• In the 1980s, we were advised, why don't you follow Reaganomics or Thatcherite economics. We said, yes, there are good points, let's see how we can fit them in the Indian economy. Every country has its own way of moving forward.

  

  Pranab Mukherjee
  • Good
  • Country
  • Why

• I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.

  

  Pippa Middleton
  • Career

• Before I became a SEAL, I'd done humanitarian work around the world - with refugee families in Bosnia, with unaccompanied children in Rwanda, with kids who lost limbs to land mines in Cambodia.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Children
  • Kids
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• The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

  

  Ezra Pound
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  • Truth
  • Technique