Ezra Pound Quotes
There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
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You really are being quite foolish to smoke.
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I do a lot of speaking about energy and environment. But that's more a second job than a hobby. Hobby-wise, I love the outdoors - hiking, biking, kayaking, swimming, scuba diving. Because I spend almost all of my life in front of a screen, time in nature is especially important, I think.
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The breaking wave and the muscle as it contracts obey the same law. Delicate line gathers the body's total strength in a bold balance. Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street.
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When I was 14, I was a passenger in a terrible accident.
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I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.
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There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.
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The entire making of 'Within and Without' was a series of experiments and trial by error. When I started writing, I didn't have a strong idea of what the record was going to end up like.
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There was a special challenge in describing the awful childhood of a person who happens to be my own husband. It was very painful at times, for both of us.
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The more that Japanese players go to the big leagues to play and succeed, the more that will serve to inspire young kids in Japan to want to become baseball players when they grow up.
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Well, yeah, but I probably wasn't as open about my desperation.
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Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.
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When you get older, two things happen to you. You begin to lose your hearing, and I forget what the other one is.
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I don't really do sad, depressing songs.
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I'm attempting to put myself in a bottle that will one day wash up on the beach for my children.
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Maven is very much a haunting presence in 'Glass Sword.' His influence is everywhere, and he dogs Mare and Cal like no other. He's my favorite character to write because he's so complex, but also because he affects everyone else so deeply. He's kind of like the source of gravity. Everyone moves around him and what he's done.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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You know what it's like: you don't want to read your old books again. All you can see are the flaws, what you would do differently.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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Even the structure of the atom has been found by the mind. Therefore the mind is subtler than the atom. That which is behind the mind, namely the individual soul, is subtler than the mind.
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Education in the past has been too much inspiration and too little information.
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'A Different World' didn't have the blazing success that 'Cosby' had, but it was on for seven seasons, and we got a lot of awards, and a lot of faces came out of that show and have had great careers.
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There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and at forty-eight.
