Ezra Pound Quotes
USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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People have these incredible expectations. So instead of being inspired by, say, Joni Mitchell's music, I look at it and say to myself, 'I'm going to quit - why would I think of writing or performing after listening to that?'
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While I was doing 'The Newsroom,' I always had the news on on different networks on different TVs around my house and around my office.
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Until the year 1967, it was a crime, for which you could be put in prison, to make homosexual love to someone in your own house. If they came in and caught you at it, you could be put into prison. This has changed - I'm talking about England, incidentally.
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For 'Ghostbusters,' the thing that makes it such an amazing franchise and an amazing idea is that it is adds the element of physics and technology. It's not just about ghosts. Who the heck came up with that? It is such a good idea, such a unique combination of stuff from different genres. Ghosts and sci fi.
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You hear about Broadway your whole life, and I learned what it meant to work on Broadway in 'The Phantom of the Opera.'
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There was a rule, back when I was an education lawyer in Alabama, about visiting public schools: always go on a rainy day so you can see how badly the roofs leak.
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The first thing I do in the morning is take my vitamins. I don't want to say which vitamins; I don't think you should push what you believe in. Doctors should do that, not fashion designers.
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I have a feeling we are going to be world champions, I can't really explain why. Brazil are probably the best team in the world in terms of individual players. But the team with the most gifted players do not always win.
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The pain of powerlessness is excruciating. It is the most painful experience in the earth school, and everyone shares it.
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The love of life is necessary to the vigorous prosecution of any undertaking.
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The ministers work is also important and he should be trained, perhaps by the Federation as to our ideals and the goal that we hope to reach. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.
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Our globalized, automated economy is full of magic - Everyday Low Prices and next-day delivery on that single Gatorade you one-clicked. But it is also full of loss - of jobs, of the dignity of steady work, of chances to rise.
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Quiet is better than loud.
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Kubrick has a divining rod for the concealed, alienating secrets of characters.
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I really miss Gunsmoke. It was like losing my whole family.
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Some people run away from things.
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The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
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Human rights is something that wasn't hard to be inspired to write about because there have been so many violations of those rights.
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We need to really focus on getting this digital equity across the board in all of our public school systems, for both girls and boys.
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Because I work in television, I always knew that I loved working with writers. It's very collaborative. You're always in a room full of writers.
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Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling me their tales.
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I have a friend who, if she has a bad hair day, it affects her whole mood because it is part of her sexuality, her confidence. I don't have that problem any more.
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USURY is the cancer of the world, which only the surgeon’s knife of Fascism can cut out of the life of the nations.
