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.
Yves Saint Laurent
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Acting is doing. It's not speaking; it's behavior. It's something happening, even if you're only listening.
Wayne Rogers
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I would rather have a million friends than a million dollars.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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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.
R. Lee Ermey
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The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world.
Carl Levin
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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.
Olivia De Havilland
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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
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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.
Zbigniew Brzezinski
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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.
Patricia Schroeder
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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.
Jeaniene Frost
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I do listen to some music, but I don't technically have one band I'm absolutely hooked on.
Kiernan Shipka
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I think we all have the same spirituality deep inside and we grow to learn more about it all the time, and we try very hard to become better people as we grow. We search all the time for the truth. We learn more about the world and we can't have thoughts like, "We are better than them" or "They are not good enough for God". This is very bad way of thinking, you know?
John Roy Anderson Yes
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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.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
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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.
Barack Obama
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A mind is so closely shaped by the body and destined to serve it that only one mind could possibly arise in it. No body, never mind.
Antonio Damasio
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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
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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.
Nan Goldin
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I hate the telephone. I think the lowest circle of hell is reserved for Alexander Graham Bell.
Rita Mae Brown
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Life is not a search for experience, but for ourselves. Having discovered our own fundamental level we realize that it conforms to our own destiny and we find peace.
Cesare Pavese
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
Kajol
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You begin to realize that the genius of our country is the constant push to be more inclusive and find new ways of engaging everyone.
Maggie Hassan
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Genius... is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one.
Ezra Pound
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The concept of genius as akin to madness has been carefully cultivated by the inferiority complex of the public.
Ezra Pound