Ezra Pound Quotes
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There's no road map. There's no textbook on how grief works and when your heart will be open - or if it ever will.
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I have always been aware that you have to get people listening before you can change their minds. Any artist's big fear is being ignored, so if you get debate, that's great.
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The very first tournament I watched is the U.S. Open when I was 13. And that was the year Juli Inkster won.
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Trátame como debes tratarme, no como merezco ser tratado.
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By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn't a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.
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People talk about nature as a mother, but to me she's always been Medea, ready and willing to slaughter her children.
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If we’re going to have arguments, let’s have arguments — but let’s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country.
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At the end of every road you meet yourself.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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American Communists have the opportunity to preach freely their ideas. It would be absolutely wrong to hold the Soviet government responsible for activities of the American Communists.
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Certainly I'll never be able to put myself in the situation that people growing up in the less developed countries are in. I've gotten a bit of a sense of it by being out there and meeting people and talking with them.
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I just have to make sure I keep improving my game in every aspect there is.
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I think the hardest obstacle I've ever had to overcome in my life is the illness and passing of my mother to cancer.
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To have the power of forgetting, for the time, self, friends, interests, relationship; and to think of doing right toward another, a stranger, an enemy, perhaps, is to have that which men can share only with the angels, and with Him who is above men and angels.
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You can forgive your leaders for not knowing the intricacies of Islamic history. You cannot forgive them for not knowing their own. And when you look at American democracy, where did it start? It started, if you need to pick a point, at Runnymede in 1215. We have now been at this process, we and our English-speaking allies, for 800 years.
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Any society which suppresses the heritage of its conquered minorities, prevents their history or denies them their symbols, has sown the seeds of their own destruction.
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There is no past, as long as books shall live. Books make the past our heritage and our home.
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When I'm out on the stage, it gives me this rush and anything that's on my mind and everything I'm going through is forgotten about.
