Ezra Pound Quotes
Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
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With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am.
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My parents are from Manchester but I was brought up in London, Camden Town.
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I'm saying, Come on, the global warming thing? How did the ice melt during the ice ages? Was the dinosaurs driving SUVs around back then?
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When I get drafty cold air in my ears, I would get an earache and get sick. I had to make sure I hustled and stayed well for my shows that I played.
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The word 'cancer' carries with it enormous fear, fear for the future, fear for family.
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Not only do we have to change the food we eat... we have to educate people about what they can eat appropriately.
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I tell jokes, and I have fun, but I tend to worry about everybody and everything throughout the entire world.
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Surely, God could have caused birds to fly with their bones made of solid gold, with their veins full of quicksilver, with their flesh heavier than lead, and with their wings exceedingly small. He did not, and that ought to show something. It is only in order to shield your ignorance that you put the Lord at every turn to the refuge of a miracle.
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'It would please me your not being obsequious. That is a trait of marketplace people who are selling shoddy goods. I am sure to prefer endless, stupid questions to that.''Ob...obseek...?''Obsequious. Flattering with oiliness. It is not liked by me. In Yiqanuc we say: ‘Send the man with the oily tongue to go and lick the snowshoes.’'
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It was a small mistake Sometimes that is all it takes.
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Economies of scale are a good thing. If we didn't have them, we'd still be living in tents and eating buffalo.
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I have a background in erotic dancing, but that's mostly just - it's not professional, it's just amateur.
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I've seen Congress do some remarkable things within a short period of time.
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I have been unexpectedly confronted with my own mortality as I was told that I had cancer.
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This is America. Success is not guaranteed.
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If you are born poor, whether white or black, you are going to be in a bad neighborhood and go to a bad school. If you are making three million dollars a year, a couple hundred thousand in taxes ain't gonna kill you.
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Thongs don't show. With jeans, you're always going to get panty lines and I think that's just a big mistake.
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We derive confidence as women from what we wear.
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London was like that too. It was that time of year when all the rich kids with the oil money have their cars shipped over. Some of the most beautiful cars I've ever seen - with the worst paint jobs! It was just this hilarious, disgusting display of wealth. The shamelessness of it. To be that shameless about your money when you're a guest in a country was astounding to me. But I saw the humor in it.
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The idea that the family is this locus of support but can also hold you back and keep you down makes for good drama.
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I'm one of those people you hate because of genetics. It's the truth.
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Losers must have leave to speak.
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Discoveries are made by gluttons and addicts. The man who forgets to eat and sleep has an appetite for fact, for interrelations among causes.
