Ezra Pound Quotes
The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
Florence Welch
Florence and the Machine
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I used to get some flack from my agents because I wouldn't even audition for parts where the hero uses violent force to be a hero.
Mackenzie Astin
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You go down South, and they're quirky; they have culture, and it's not uniformly true of our country. Our country has gotten a little blanded out, big sections of it. Even if you disagree with the politics, you have to appreciate the cuisine, the music, the literature.
J. Smith-Cameron
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I'm a rabid Steelers fan: I'm originally from Pittsburgh. So if the Giants or Pittsburgh are playing, the rest of Sunday is all about food and football.
Tamara Tunie
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Smart people are a dime a dozen. What matters is the ability to think different... to think out of the box.
Walter Isaacson
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God doesn't know things. He is things.
D. H. Lawrence
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I've never really identified with the way a typical alpha male views women. It's always an awkward forum for me to hang out with another guy and talk about girls, because I can't really find a way to fit in.
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
Valentino Rossi
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I liked Sartre's views but not his writing.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
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I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.
Gabrielle Zevin
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As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content.
Jeff Bridges
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It's no good being too easily swayed by people's opinions. You have to believe in yourself.
Donatella Versace
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Because there's no structural barrier to joining 4chan, the community is really dynamic; for every five people that leave, five new people join, bringing their perspective and culture. A lot of other communities get set in their ways.
Christopher Poole
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The world ultimately is what we say it is.
David Friedrich Strauss
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I came up with this statistic that if a kid makes something himself, he's 90 to 95% likely to try it. And of course, then, if it's good, he'll eat it!
Tamra Davis
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It's been such a group effort. When you're a new band and you have limited resources, you end up getting people that are there because they love what you do, and that's great.
Balthazar Getty
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India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.
Arundhati Bhattacharya
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The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.
Ezra Pound
