Ezra Pound Quotes
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I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.
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They that are intoxicated by self-conceit have interposed themselves between it and the Divine and infallible Physician. Witness how they have entangled all men, themselves included, in the mesh of their devices. They can neither discover the cause of the disease, nor have they any knowledge of the remedy.
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As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.
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I think what made John Lennon so exciting as an artist is that, like Dylan and other musicians with a truly important musical legacy, he had several faces, personas that changed over time as he developed.
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I think top scientists need to be compensated at a different scale in society. Somebody with experience will tell you that true scientists are not motivated by money - they are motivated by the quest itself. That is true. But I think an additional recognition will not hurt.
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People will still give me attention: even when my teeth are gone, I'll have some good stories to tell.
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Me.
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There was a story that some EMI execs had come down to see you and you'd said something like: 'Here's what I've been working on,' and then produced some cakes from your oven. True? 'No! I don't know where that came from. I thought that was quite funny actually. It presents me as this homely creature, which is all right, isn't it?'
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It made me wonder if perhaps our ancestors' crimes were not in fact far more terrible than they claimed. After all, the only histories we possessed told their version of what happened, and in their accounts they were completely innocent.
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No one believes for a moment the embargo will prompt the Iraqi people to rise against Saddam Hussein.
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Innumerable twinkling of the waves of the sea.
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Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.
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A prima descendit origine mundicausarum series.
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Up until the final decade of the nineteenth century, the United States and the United Kingdom did not recognize copyright in each other's creative works.
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There have been points in my life as an artist where I have wanted to capture people's attention, probably to compensate for times when I felt invisible.
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The nation can no longer afford to continue policies that hasten the flight of persons to the distant suburbs.
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We can't sit around waiting for big government, big business, big religion etc. to save us. We need to get informed and take inspired action.
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My editor's main job is to cut down my worldbuilding. There's so much fun stuff in there, you know?
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Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
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Genes are not simple triggers. No one is hardwired to commit murder or any other crime. Our actions are always the result of stupendously complex gene-environment interactions, and environment is likely to remain the more important influence by far.
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I did not enter into silence. Silence captured me.
