Ezra Pound Quotes
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.
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My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.
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In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president. Yet the Dow rose from 66 to 11,497.
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The train's always full of football fans going up to see matches. Oh, they make sure I hear their points of view all right. They all want to have their say about their team, and make their opinions known.
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I just want to continue with gymnastics because I'm still young and fresh. I think can get some more titles under my belt.
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Above all, I try to create an emotion to which others can respond.
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Taking part in an Olympics on home ground is something you dream about.
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Doing representations of real people is not my strongpoint as a visual artist, and I know that.
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As I told the students every time I visited a campus, you are the director of your own movie, and if you aren't enjoying what you are doing, change it.
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I can't help but have my sights set on Scorsese, Cohen Brothers and Spike Jones.
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Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.
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If you don't have a dream, how are you going to make a dream come true?
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I grew up in an acting family. I was heavily discouraged from doing it myself when I was young, which is the only responsible route to take with any child, because it's not necessarily the easiest of lives.
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Democrats hate Democrats most of all.
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Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.
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Sometimes you find your voice by trying to write like people, and sometimes you find it by trying to write unlike people.
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Animals are not just herbivores or carnivores. They are, in the nice coinage of the psychologist George Miller, informavores.
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There are some actresses that can't do comedy; it's too heavy-handed.
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Monetary success is not success. Career success is not success. Life, someone that loves you, giving to others, doing something that makes you feel complete and full. That is success. And it isn't dependent on anyone else.
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In literature, the ghost is almost always a metaphor for the weight of the past. I don't believe in them in the traditional sense.
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To those of you who study history, economics, sociology, literature and language I present the challenge of the utilization of the enormous resources in our grasp to the problem of creating a genuinely good life for yourselves and your children.
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I can only speak for myself. But what I write and how I write is done in order to save my own life. And I mean that literally. For me literature is a way of knowing that I am not hallucinating, that whatever I feel/know is.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
