Ezra Pound Quotes
The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
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I adore America. It's an extraordinary country. A new country.
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
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I've never had to spend any time in the VA hospital, so I really can't speak for those guys.
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
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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.
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Shakespeare is universal.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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One of my assistants, a British man, says I should find a platform for [cosmetic industry]. Meanwhile I wear make-up.
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
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Sometimes one must travel far to discover what is near.
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I played small forward on the basketball team. I also ran the 300 hurdles.
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I don't think Michael Bloomberg would say that his greatest skill is delivering the speech. He would say he's more of a nuts-and-bolts mayor-picking up the trash, dealing with the school system.
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The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously, and those who have produced immortal works have done so without knowing how or why.
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Virtue is as little to be acquired by learning as genius; nay, the idea is barren, and is only to be employed as an instrument, in the same way as genius in respect to art. It would be as foolish to expect that our moral and ethical systems would turn out virtuous, noble, and holy beings, as that our aesthetic systems would produce poets, painters, and musicians.
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The all importance of clothes has sprung up in the intellect of the dandy without effort, like an instinct of genius; he is inspired with clothes, a poet of clothes.
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
