Ezra Pound Quotes
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Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
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I'm constantly complimented for my voice, even by random people at the airport!
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In my proper character, I am an officer of the United States Army.
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Bolivar's legacy has always been a part of the Venezuelan/Latin American imagery, especially in the countries that he liberated or he helped to liberate. He's been a very prominent figure.
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The sky is a free asset in design, and nothing unnecessary should be planted that takes away the sky.
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In some families, parents don't read or don't have the money to spend on books.
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It's fun being paid to read stuff and air your opinion about it - pretty much a dream job for a writer.
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My style is very simple, but I love Reese Witherspoon, Kate Hudson and Kate Middleton.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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What 'Shaun of the Dead' and 'Hot Fuzz' and 'World's End' do is smuggle a different movie under the guise of a zombie movie or a cop or alien invasion movie. Even though they all have action and carnage, they are really films about growing up and taking responsibility.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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I listen to all kinds of music, but I've always been a really big fan of Top 40 radio. If I'm in my car, that's what I listen to.
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As I was coming out of the closet, our car was hurtling over an embankment.
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People see you on TV every day, they start knowing your name. You know, I was always just the guy from Maroon 5 until I became myself.
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If you've noticed that I don't use long takes, it's not because I don't like them, but because no one gives me the necessary means to treat myself to them. It's more economical to make one image, then this image and then that image, and try to control them later, in the editing studio.
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Beulah, Peel me a grape.
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry nowIs hung with bloom along the bough.
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Kierkegaard was by far the most profound thinker of the last century. Kierkegaard was a saint.
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As Duke Ellington once said, 'the Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Elkton.' ... About that Wellington guy, I wouldn't know. Ellington, yes. As for that Eton business - well, I married my first wife in Elkton, and I always hated the place. It musta stuck.
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Soul was the music made by and for black people. For most of the Sixties it was thoroughly divorced from white popular music, but by the end of the decade several artists with their roots firmly in both soul and R&B traditions had crossed over.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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Your mind is the only weapon that can defeat you. No one can defeat you until your mind is clear
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Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.
