Ezra Pound Quotes
A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
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There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
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One thing my family has shown me is that having a sense of humor is everything.
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I will not claim I will solve all the world's problems by myself. If I did, I'd have to run as a Republican or a Democrat.
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Japan has only 100m people. Asia has 4bn. At least one-third, maybe nearly half, will become middle class, and this is a big opportunity for Japanese businessmen.
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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My dad was a firefighter for almost 30 years. My mom worked her way up from a secretary to vice president of her own company. They taught me to work hard for everything and take nothing for granted. That's how I play.
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I have a career I love more than I can tell you, and I have it because I work incredibly hard pretty much every single day.
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It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce.
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I've read comics all my life and have wanted to write a comic for as long as I can remember. Alex Barnaby and Sam Hooker seemed like the perfect team to make the move into the graphic medium.
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There has never been a great athlete who died not knowing what pain is.
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Kids would tell me I was fat and say other mean things about my body.
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I've always sensed for myself an obligation to bear witness to my time.
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My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action.
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I make movies for money, exclusively for money.
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We tell the public which way the cat is jumping. The public will take care of the cat.
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There's an awful lot of resources that can be drawn upon in an improvised music concert.
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In Europe, we see the underlying strength of the economy, especially in southern European countries.
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Our economy is built upon convergent thinkers, people that execute things, get them done. But artists and designers are divergent thinkers: they expand the horizon of possibilities.
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People have perhaps gotten to the point where for the most part movies are a just bit of escape.
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You can't make something beautiful by trying to make something beautiful. Something becomes beautiful in the process of trying to be something else.
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I think everything has to come from something that you feel comfortable with and want to be in and sometimes we try to negotiate that limit, but it's not always easy to find the right balance.
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A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in the process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.
