Ezra Pound Quotes
The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
Quotes to Explore
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Overcome your barriers, intend the best, and be patient. You will enjoy more balance, more growth, more income, and more fun!
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Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
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When Elizabeth II was crowned – the sixth female monarch since the Norman conquest – the world lit up in her favour.
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I say 'no' to nothing, 'yes' to moderation. That's how I approach everything. No matter if it's candy or foie gras. When you have the real deal, you're satisfied with that one bite. I say go full throttle and call it a day.
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Separate is not equal. Civil unions are civil unions. Marriage is marriage. They're different institutions.
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I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!
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You must learn to be still in the midst of activity and to be vibrantly alive in repose.
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People ask me 'Why you want to do another magazine - 10 years at 'Vogue,' a great magazine? Why do you want to make a new one? It's so difficult and there's already so many.' I wanted to do something new, bring a new vision.
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To some people, Common Core means what it actually is, which is a set of standards. That's not necessarily most people. To other people, Common Core is a new curriculum that's been implemented at their school that they don't understand. It's applying new teaching tools.
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What IS is more important than WHAT SHOULD BE. To many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be.'
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'I love you. That'll be the ending of this under the words. '
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I never called myself an urban artist, but that's what I was classed as, and I almost tried to live up to the name instead of who I really was.
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People who understand basketball definitely appreciate what I bring to the table.
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I'm not one of the people who have to be in public office.
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People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
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I hate small talk! I can't do it.
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I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
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As we all know from the Roman empire, big empires go down if the borders are not well-protected.
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Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself.
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Friends can help each other. A true friend is someone who lets you have total freedom to be yourself - and especially to feel. Or, not feel. Whatever you happen to be feeling at the moment is fine with them. That's what real love amounts to - letting a person be what he really is.
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I don't believe that in the name of the holiness of the city you have to put barbed wires, machine gun nests, mine pins and everything of that, in the name of the holiness of Jerusalem.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I used to go in for Disney auditions, and they'd tell me, 'You're cute and nice but just not funny.'
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The difference between a gun and a tree is a difference of tempo. The tree explodes every spring.
