Ezra Pound Quotes
The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
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Our children will outwit us if they want; for when it comes to technology, they hold the higher ground. Unlike other tools passed carefully and ceremonially from one generation to the next - the sharp scissors, the car keys - this is one they understand better than we do.
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I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.
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I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!
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You can say whatever you want about me, I'm not really bothered. But when it starts to upset people I care about or I hear about it from my mum, then that's a problem.
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While marriage is historically associated with dire obligation and clipped wings, I've found that it actually liberates you to take on adventure and achieve your dreams. I like to call my husband 'my person.' Find your 'person,' and you can do anything!
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The emotions of the game do not change.
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I don't talk in ifs.
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I don't know if I'd say I feel green, but I'm getting to know myself as an actor now in a way that I never did as a kid.
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It is our duty, as parents and as teachers, to give all children the space to build their emotional strength and provide a strong foundation for their future.
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Hungary does not need a single migrant for the economy to work or the population to sustain itself or for the country to have a future.
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I've always believed that the things middle class families struggle with around their kitchen tables should define my work in Washington.
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I write about real life as it is lived by the young American Muslim women that I've had the pleasure of meeting throughout the course of my travels as a writer and being able to speak in different places and meet different people at signings and things.
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Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.
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One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.
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When you want the belt, you have to work for it.
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I remember Berlin. Berlin to me was the star of the film. I loved for six months that we filmed there.
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I'm an honest dude, not trying to be anything other than who I am.
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Patents have long served as a fundamental cog in the American machine, cherished in our national soul.
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I can sell anything. I'm very convincing.
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Kids who have an understanding of how and why their feelings are what they are are much more likely to talk to us about what's happening, and they have better skills to work it out.
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Celebrities do look different in real life from our images of them - there is a big gap. And that is what my work is about: the gap between the image and the celebrity themselves.
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A solitary ascetic is a symbol of the most cowardly egotism; a hermit who flees from his brothers instead of helping them to carry the burden of life, to work for others, and to put their shoulders to the wheel of social life, is a coward who hides himself when the battle is on, and goes to sleep drunk on an opiate.
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I applied to Yale, and I got in.
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The only thing one can give an artist is leisure in which to work. To give an artist leisure is actually to take part in his creation.
