Ezra Pound Quotes

The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

Ezra Pound

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• I would love to be able to see as much of the world as possible, and volunteering, doing things in another community, living with a host family, are really effective ways to learn about cultures different from your own. And also to not feel lazy.

  

  Eden Sher
  • World
  • Family
  • Learn

• In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Know
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• Don't use words too big for the subject. Don't say 'infinitely' when you mean 'very'; otherwise you'll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Want
  • You
  • Words

• I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Wife
  • Wedding
  • Qualities

• What I love about jazz is that it's full of legends, full of myths. It's an oral history because it started in New Orleans and Kansas City, under the radar.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • History
  • City

• Many laws as certainly make bad men, as bad men make many laws.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Men
  • Bad
  • Laws

• To know God better is only to realize how impossible it is that we should ever know him at all. I know not which is more childish to deny him, or define him.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • God
  • Better
  • Impossible

• I think the studio gave me that series on purpose, because they knew perfectly well that Robert Riskin was ill and that I needed to go to work. They gave me that series to do.

  

  Fay Wray
  • Work
  • Think
  • Purpose

• In the '50s, critics used to say I had a 'dangerous' act.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • Dangerous
  • Act
  • Used

• A dagger has only a single point, but a traitor cuts from anywhere.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Single

• In 1960, only sixteen million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is eighty million. No nation has ever undergone so rapid and radical a transformation.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Today
  • Transformation

• I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Different
  • Dark

• ... deshalb ich diese als die Metaphysik des Volkes bezeichnet habe.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Die

• I've just done a film in the United States. It's a thriller called 'A Crime', with Harvey Keitel, we play against each other, and it's so great to play in another language. But I'm definitely not American.

  

  Emmanuelle Beart
  • Great
  • Done
  • American

• We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.

  

  Dorothy Day
  • Believe

• I just have to move forward and keep working on my game and getting better.

  

  Kawhi Leonard
  • Game

• Humanity does not come with citizenship or a green card.

  

  Joe Kennedy III
  • Humanity
  • Green

• Regrettably, it has become clear that torture of detainees in United States custody is not limited to Abu Ghraib or even Iraq. Since Abu Ghraib, there have been increasing reports of torture.

  

  Marty Meehan

• I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Important
  • Long
  • Live

• People are always going to say stupid things, and you're always going to be able to make jokes about that, but it should be the last thing you add in, because it's the easiest thing.

  

  John Oliver
  • People
  • Stupid

• How significant is Aristotle? Well, I wouldn’t want to exaggerate, so let me put it this way: Abandoning Aristotelianism, as the founders of modern philosophy did, was the single greatest mistake ever made in the entire history of Western thought.

  

  Edward Feser
  • History
  • Mistake
  • Philosophy

• I feel ups and downs are a part of one's career, and this totally depends on how you take it. You can either be knocked down by the negative things, or you can take it in a positive way and learn from it.

  

  Deepika Padukone
  • Career
  • Positive

• The worst mistake I made was that stupid, suburban prejudice of anti-Semitism.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Mistake
  • Stupid
  • Prejudice