Ezra Pound Quotes
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Nothing scares me more than people with some doll collection.
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Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.
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They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.
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I think punditry serves no purpose.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.
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Never forget the power of silence, that massively disconcerting pause which goes on and on and may at last induce an opponent to babble and backtrack nervously.
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Even though I have lived in the States since I was 18, in my head I am still very British, and I do have this romance for towns in Middle America that nobody gets to see.
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Healing yourself is connected with healing others.
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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You can preach a better sermon with your life than with your lips.
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At some point in our lives there's something about every one of us that makes us feel like an outsider, I believe.
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Nothing's better than a picnic.
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I make hit records. I make hit records to motivate the people.
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Ah what avails the sceptered race,Ah what the form divine!
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Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.
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The Biblical words about the genesis of heaven and earth are not words of information but words of appreciation. The story of creation is not a description of how the world came into being but a song about the glory of the world's having come into being.
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In the economy of the cuckoo people that populate central banks, everything is possible. What you have is gigantic bubbles, the NASDAQ in 2000, then the housing bubble and then commodities in 2008 when oil went from $78 to $147 before plunging to $32 within six months.
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For 'American Born Chinese,' my first graphic novel with First Second Books, I did mostly 'memory' research. It's fiction, but I pulled heavily from my own childhood.
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Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.
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It's harder for me to relate to people who don't have families that are loud and crazy.
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I love writing but don't get a huge amount of time to do it.
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Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe.
