Ezra Pound Quotes
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I could have probably built a great career in management consulting, but one of the insights that I had early on is that just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you should continue to do it. Somewhere in my heart of hearts I knew it wasn't what I wanted to do.
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The Oscars are a lot different when you are a nominee. You walk around with this big smile on your face, and everyone, even people who work for rival film companies, tells you they voted for you.
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I write songs as honestly as I can without worrying about genres or labels. Sometimes I sing, and sometimes I rap, and sometimes I do something in between. I jump around on stage and don't care too much about how I look. I try to be myself even though I'm still figuring myself out.
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I worry a lot about taking care of my dependents, all those perfectly ordinary middle-class preoccupations.
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Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.
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No intelligent idea can gain general acceptance unless some stupidity is mixed in with it.
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When I was young my heart was young then, too. And anything that it would tell me, that's the thing that I would do.
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Commonplace objects are constantly changing… The pies, for example, we now see, are not going to be around forever. We are merely used to the idea that things do not change.
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Writers need to learn their trade, and how to negotiate the increasingly difficult marketplace. The trade can be taught and learned just as the craft can. But a workshop where the trade is the principal focus of interest is not a writing workshop. It is a business class.
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It is better to ultimately succeed with the truth than to temporarily succeed with a lie.
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The ones who are successful are the ones who really want it. You have to have that inner drive otherwise it's not going to work out.
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It takes local pastors to say, 'we're not going to take it. Be strong.
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I dream of a collaboration that will become so complete that, often, the poet will think as musician and the musician as poet, so that the work resulting from this union will not be the random conclusion of a series of approximations and concessions, but the harmonious synthesis of two aspects of the same thought.
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There's always the question of time. Does time at 10:00 mean 10:00 sharp? Or does it mean give or take a few minutes? And a few minutes, is that plus or minus two minutes? Or plus or minus ten, or maybe a half an hour each way?
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To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.
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I think it's definitely not up to my expectations. It was disappointing for me.
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I think an alliance with Stalin's Russia is rotten.
