Ezra Pound Quotes
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.Ezra Pound
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
Yves Saint Laurent -
Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers -
I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
R. Lee Ermey -
The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin -
By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
Olivia De Havilland -
Shakespeare is universal.
Harold Bloom
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I don't think I'm unlike a lot of people. I am just someone who is trying to find that mate, and I think it's a really hard thing to do.
Halle Berry -
I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
My entire history with the Navy have been trying to get the Navy to focus on families and child care and all the things that they were way behind in - housing, all of those things.
Patricia Schroeder -
Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.
Jeaniene Frost -
It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do.
F. Scott Fitzgerald -
I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity.
Barack Obama
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As for being a voice in politics, I feel whether you are famous or not, busy or not, it's incumbent upon every citizen to participate in this government in any way we can.
Elayne Boosler -
One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
Nan Goldin -
I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
Rita Mae Brown -
Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.
Uri Shulevitz -
I am
Kimberly Michelle Pate -
Great ambition is the passion of a great character.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I must have been 15 or 16 when I left Antrim Grammar, but I do remember having my first proper kiss when I lived there.
Ricky Whittle -
What opposite discoveries we have seen! (Signs of true genius, and of empty pockets.) One makes new noses, one a guillotine, One breaks your bones, one sets them in their sockets; But vaccination certainly has been A kind antithesis to Congreve's rockets.
Lord Byron -
Find out what people want to do, then tell them to do it. They'll think you're a genius.
Connie Brockway -
The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.
Stephen Vizinczey -
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound