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.
Ezra Pound
Quotes to Explore
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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.
Pat Paulsen
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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.
Tadashi Yanai
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Am I grumpy? I might be. But I think maybe sometimes it's misinterpreted.
Harrison Ford
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As long as you're having fun, that's the key. The moment it becomes a grind, it's over.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
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I stop working at about 3 p.m. on Fridays.
Patricia Cornwell
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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.
Damien Chazelle
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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.
J. J. Watt
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We got bigger, much scarier competitors. We ended up with Microsoft, a company with all the money in the world, the way I look at those guys. And IBM, another company that, historically, dwarfed us.
Safra A. Catz
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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.
Kate Reardon
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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.
John Lennon
The Beatles
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8: A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
Alan Perlis
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Will an Iraq war make our Al Qaeda problem worse? Not likely.
Christopher Hitchens
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I was so self-critical. I still am, but it's not as bad anymore.
Fiona Apple
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Life is just a short period of time in which you are alive.
Philip Roth
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There should be a democracy of voices in literature. There are people who live with a kind of striving and with a certain kind of tenderness - it's not an unusual thing - and maybe that's not written about enough.
Anne Michaels
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London is a fantastic creator of jobs - but many of these jobs are going to people who don't originate in this country.
Boris Johnson
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People who put my paintings on their walls are putting their values on their walls: faith, family, home, a simpler way of living, the beauty of nature, quiet, tranquillity, peace, joy, hope. They beckon you into this world that provides an alternative to your nightly news broadcast.
Thomas Kinkade
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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.
Ezra Pound
