Ezra Pound Quotes
You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
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These activists who support immigrants inadvertently become part of this international human-smuggling network.
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If an organization values innovation, you can assume it's safe to speak up with new ideas, leaders will listen, and your voice matters.
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Acting was something I had to do.
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but I had to stop going there when they started playing my music. It felt kinda awkward.
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I'm trying to encourage more women to be themselves, rather than what men want them to be. I don't believe in patronizing either sex.
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I'm very political without being political. I don't know how to speak proper political language.
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I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.
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I think all writers write from the time they're really young, and you just start asking the question, 'What if?'
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I'm always going to love my father.
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Why should we use the Dollar even when we trade among ourselves?
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If Casey Stengel were alive today, he'd be spinning in his grave.
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So for us any gain we had in election, one vote that we got, was a win.
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There's no job like 'SNL.' There's no other job you go to where you're like, 'Oh, this is like that live, late-night sketch variety-musical show that shoots in, whatever it is, 10,000 feet of sound stage.' There's nothing like it.
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These days I seem to think a lotAbout the things that I forgot to doFor youAnd all the times I had the chance to.
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Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hinder legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.
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He looked around the landscape. Drenched in the golden haze of late afternoon it seemed wonderfully tranquil and beautiful, though permeated with a sense of remoteness and even melancholy, like a scene remembered from one’s youth.
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O Man, as long as you exist, know, have, and cherish, You have not been delivered, believe me, of your burden.
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Puns are the highest form of literature.
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And then finally, I'm the commander, so I am fundamentally responsible for the lives of the other people on board and the health and longevity of the space station. I need to bring six people back happy, healthy and feeling like they've had the best six months of their life.
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Being educated in the United States gave me a good understanding of American culture. I think I got a lot of influence from the entrepreneurial mind in the United States.
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I know this one pusher walks around humming a tune and everybody he passes takes it up. He is so grey and spectral and anonymous they don't see him and think it is their own mind humming the tune.
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I love kids, but there's always time for them later. You can always adopt; you can have a puppy. The songs are my children.
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You know how exasperated you can be when you're the mother of five young boys.
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You have been second always. Tragical? No. You preferred it to the usual thing: One dull man, dulling and uxorious, One average mind- with one thought less, each year.
