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 guitar was loud as hell, and I had no sympathy for anybody else.
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The American 'unum' has been lost since the Sixties. If this continues, there will soon be no unifying American identity and vision to balance the 'pluribus,' and the days of the Republic will be numbered.
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There is nothing divine about morality; it is a purely human affair. If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed. What the individual can do is to give a fine example, and to have the courage to uphold ethical values .. in a society of cynics.
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In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.
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I used to laugh at my friends who garden, but I now garden. You don't even feel like you're exercising. You're having fun, and you're being healthy at the same time.
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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.
