Ezra Pound Quotes
The real trouble with war modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
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It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind.
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I've really been writing a lot of country songs. I used to get criticized for doing a 'Bump & Grind,' then turning around and doing a gospel song. But the truth is I'm glad I have a gift that allows me to switch lanes.
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I loved being on the radio. Being paid to talk? It's like being paid to eat.
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I was an avid reader, but never thought seriously about writing a novel until I was in my thirties. I took no formal fiction-writing courses and never thought about these categories when I wrote my first novel.
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Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.
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My personal philosophy is that people should be extremely selfish for the first half of their life and extremely unselfish for the second half because then they can do the most good.
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I didn't like playing with dolls; I didn't like getting dressed up. A lot of my friends and people I went to school with were into fashion and their clothes, so I lacked a bit of self-belief and confidence... I wasn't really comfortable.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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I like hard rock, and classic rock, and even metal.
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I'ma continue to make records, continue to make hits, continue to be what I am, legendary.
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The word we have in Korea for K-Pop is 'Gaio.' And I guess it's a huge umbrella term. Basically it's like saying Coldplay and Kanye West, or Eminem and Celine Dion, are the same genre.
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My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
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Luckily, there is a wind of change happening in Hindi cinema. Good work is coming to people who are not conventionally good looking like Ranbir Kapoor or Akshay Kumar.
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I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
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It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.
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Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.
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The man who gives his own decisions priority over society is a criminal.
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A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.
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Though it was never a goal in life, it has occurred to me that I've met six presidents of the United States. OK, I met four of them before they became president, including Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush, No. 43.
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If you want to know what life is like in the Soviet Union, go to your local department of motor vehicles.
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You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.
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The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.
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The real trouble with war modern war is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.
