Ezra Pound Quotes

Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

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• I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.

  

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• I don't prepare for anything very well. I am not a good actor. I don't read scripts.

  

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• Politics is a herd mentality. Politicians don't really lead. Politicians reflect what they think is consensus opinion.

  

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• I don't like to Google myself. I try and avoid it whenever I can.

  

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• I don't harp on the negative because if you do, then there's no progression. There's no forward movement. You got to always look on the bright side of things, and we are in control. Like, you have control over the choices you make.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
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• If you live in New York or L.A., and you're liberal, and you're playing to a liberal crowd, it's almost like a rally... it's not edgy.

  

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• 'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
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• I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate, when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• I do find that it's easier to get Latino-themed movies... but I don't think there's that stigma anymore. I think that what's harder is to be a woman, not to be a Latina.

  

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• I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.

  

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• It is my responsibility that I must make demonstrative efforts to reach out to every citizen of the country.

  

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• There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.

  

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• I do not wish a foreign army to spill the blood of my people.

  

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• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

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• I have a great need for affection from an audience. I don't know whether this is because I had such a tough life when I was a child.

  

  Eartha Kitt
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• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
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• I think I earned the players' respect, and that's the ultimate in life, isn't it? I didn't care if they liked me or disliked me, as long as I had their respect.

  

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• My position is that of detective, confessor, vaudevillian, advocate. And devil's advocate.

  

  John McLaughlin
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• I could never really imagine myself doing one thing, and I'm pretty sure that I'll end up doing four or five different things. I want to be a Renaissance woman. I want to paint, and I want to write, and I want to act, and I want to just do everything.

  

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• Only a fraction of the history of literacy has been typographic. (p. 84)

  

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• The idea of having a house, a kid, a husband, and a dog... I love that. I also really want to open a coffee and flower shop one day, probably in Italy.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Husband
  • Idea
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• Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Reading
  • Master
  • Deserves