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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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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If you're not proud of where you work, go work somewhere else.
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We have required under law for years that men and women get paid equal money for equal work. But we've faced challenges enforcing that law. There is still a large wage gap, and there are numerous instances of women holding jobs where they are not compensated fairly.
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No matter how you cut it, this real debate on personal accounts is about the legitimacy of Social Security; it's not about the solvency of Social Security.
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Like most kids growing up, I had a very wide interest. I was interested in everything. I tried to take advantage of everything, from the sciences to music to writing to literature.
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If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.
