Ezra Pound Quotes
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I think downloading is both saving and killing the music industry at the same time.
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Musical compositions can be very sad - Chopin - but you have the pleasure of this sadness. The cheap consolation is: you will be happy. The higher consolation is the pleasure and recognition of your unhappiness, the pleasure of having recognised that fate, destiny and life are such as they are and so you reach a higher form of consciousness.
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The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human.
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The hardest thing about being an unpublished writer is that there's always that voice in your head that asks if you're really being a fool. You might just really stink and not know it. You have to have a lot of blind faith in the process. You have to like it so much that you're going to do it anyway.
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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.
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Israel will not divide its land. We're already too small.
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I love doing improv, and I swear by it, and I encourage people to take classes, and blah blah blah. But it's always been interesting how it doesn't necessarily translate to television.
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Fans tend to get too excited by streaks of either kind and I think the press does too. There should be a happy medium.
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All love is unrequited. All of it.
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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.
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As a person, I believe that I am sensitive, which helped me be the artist I am.
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If it's boring, then it's tiring.
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The government can't even do a good job of something as simple as running the Post Office. How can it be expected to do a good job with something really important, like educating our children?
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I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.
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One of the hardest jobs in ministry is keeping your own relationship with God where it needs to be.
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Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
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Fashion is more about feel than science.
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Adopting this lifestyle and opting to exercise has helped me a lot in life.
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Going back to high school and college, I believed I would be involved in public service. I literally could not conceptualize anything else.
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When public access to voting is impaired or when public confidence in voting is diluted, democracy suffers and our freedom is less secure.
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Even if you live in a tiny village, there's an Internet site. It's quite easy to find clothes, but sometimes women don't know how to mix them.
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When I was at Marvel, they were in bankruptcy, which is hard to believe now with 'Avengers 2' out, but it was during the 1990s. It was a troubled place. Comic book sales were dropping. Work was scattered.
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I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story.
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With one day's reading a man may have the key in his hands.
