Ezra Pound Quotes
A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
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I love to read. And right now I'm on my last hundred pages of 'The Corrections' by Jonathan Franzen, and I really enjoyed it. His writing is just - he's one of those writers where you just go, 'There are people just meant to be novel writers.'
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Yeah, I'd like to get the girl and at least make it through the film.
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'Srimanthudu' was very important for me and my career at that time, so I was tensed. But for 'Brahmotsavam,' honestly speaking, I am more excited because of its content. I have attempted something new, and I am keen to see how the audience receives it.
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One thing I've learned now is that I should not say when a book is coming out until I'm sure I know.
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Some people think that if their opponent plays a beautiful game, it's okay to lose. I don't. You have to be merciless.
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There's nothing so unattractive as vanity... particularly male vanity.
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Some people object to libertarian ideas because there are too many irresponsible people in the world - people who will cause trouble if the government doesn't restrain them.
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Brexit was not a coup. Far from it. In the eyes of most analysts, it was a clear sign that people are frustrated and fed up with the status quo; this is particularly the case with independent voters.
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Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some of the effort we put into ambitious museums and galleries into the basic architectural building blocks of society.
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As women, we are constantly criticising and judging ourselves in terms of our body, how we dress, what profession we take up, how we fare in that. Indian women are gifted with certain body types and features, which is healthy, and we should accept that.
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My brothers and I always did improv stuff in our basement with our friends; we're super nerds, and that was our way of spending a Friday night.
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I'm going to scream this from the mountain top, there's no such thing as 'a curry.' There's six kazillion different kinds of curry. When someone asks how to make chicken curry, I have to ask 'Which one?'
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Once you have a Down's syndrome child, you can't conform. In a way, you're free.
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I live with a bunch of yuppies and models.
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I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.
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Our State Department is often wrong and timid.
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The Gold Rush and the Pony Express made Sacramento a substantial place in terms of enterprise.
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I am a babe for a living.
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My uncle was famous for his balanced point of view. At the time of which I am writing (when he was nearly seventy) it had become so balanced, that the act of balancing seemed rather automatic.One had only to offer him an opinion for him to balance it with a counter- opinion of exactly the same weight, as a grocer puts a pound weight against a pound of sugar.
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Necessity is the theme and the inventress, the eternal curb and law of nature.
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Censors are energetic and righteous people but they just couldn't work a room like Abbe Lane.
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When the sacredness of property is talked of, it should be remembered that any such sacredness does not belong in the same degree to landed property.
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I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.
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A civilized man is one who will give a serious answer to a serious question. Civilization itself is a certain sane balance of values.
