Ezra Pound Quotes
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The first responsibility of the Muslim is as teacher. That is his job, to teach. His first school, his first classroom is within the household. His first student is himself. He masters himself and then he begins to convey the knowledge that he has acquired to the family. The people who are closest to him.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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Self-esteem comes from who you have in your life. How you were raised. What you struggled with as a child.
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Although I was born into the America that experiences and believes in opportunity, my trips to Ferguson, Detroit, Atlanta, and Chicago have revealed that there is an undercurrent of unease.
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After retiring, I was a little bored with nothing to do and got fat. I thought, if a 60-year-old metabolic fat man, after five years, can get to Mount Everest, that would be very exciting.
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New York in a way functions as another character within the story, as it does within most of Woody Allen's stories.
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I'm the sort of person who doesn't write in ink. I only write in pencil, so it can be rubbed out.
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For commercial customers, we have invested in specialist mobile-first sales capabilities, and we are building out our device-selling channel.
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I have a lot of respect for people who are great at ad-libbing and for writers and directors who are able to create a scene in which that works. Judd Apatow is fantastic at it. But as an audience member, I like the sound of something that's been written - I like it to sound written.
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Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1
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I can sing better after shooting smack in both arms than after eating too much.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.
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You cannot wait for someone to save you, to help you, to complete you. No one can complete you. You complete yourself.
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I think it's a matter of trust, a matter of rebuilding the trust that we had, ... And yes, I have talked to Kobe; he actually called me this morning to congratulate me on the job. And I felt confident that he's confident that we can go forward.
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I am not a teacher. I am an awakener.
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I have two dogs and a parrot, so they require a lot of attention. They deserve it.
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What counts is the cultural level.
