Ezra Pound Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I don't have business with any politicians.
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I probably have a higher opinion of my writing than the average person, at least when I'm in a good mood, but I don't really think of my plays as only being relevant to a particular month or year.
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Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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Outside of dumb luck, the number one way serial killers are caught is through the help of the public.
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I don't want to be someone else.
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I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.
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Usually when I take my films to festivals, I feel incredibly anxious about them. I wonder how it will be received, how the audience will react. I feel deeply responsible for them.
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Basically, I tend to see the world differently to other people, and I write books and stories to alter the imagination of people so that they also see the world in a different way.
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Music has always been an important thing to me in my life and understand I've worked in the music business.
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Air power will not defeat ISIS. It has not been able to deny ISIS freedom of maneuver and the ability to attack at will.
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I am neither a homosexual nor a eunuch, nor have I ever taken any vows of chastity.
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When you lead change, sometimes you get arrows in your back. I mean, that's just the way the real world is.
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Our Government is committed to pursuing policies and programs which facilitate a further lowering of the interest rates in order to fuel investment and growth. We call on the commercial banks to partner with us in this effort.
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When my kids were growing up, I wanted their teachers to teach them science, reading, math and history. I also wanted them to care about my kids. But I did not want my children's public school teachers teaching them religion. That was my job as a parent and the job of our church, Sunday school, and youth group.
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Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.
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Living my life socially means there is a swagger to how I dress, walk; it's not about being 'cool,' it's just being me - that's understanding your place and your center - that's what swagger is, and I guess that's where the soul comes from.
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'Munmun' happened because the human world's dizzying inequality - of wealth and of power - had begun to send me over the edge, and I had to write something to try to help myself understand it a little better.
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I've met every freak in the business.
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Belief is a virus, and once it gets into you, its first order of business is to preserve itself, and the way it preserves itself is to keep you from having any doubts, and the way it keeps you from doubting is to blind you to the way things really are. Evidence contrary to the belief can be staring you straight in the face, and you won't see it... True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.
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It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.
