Nicholas Charles Goepper (Nick Goepper) Quotes
The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.
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The longer you are in a place, the more you get under its layers.
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I've never had a treehouse because I live in New York City. It would be a little bit hard to fit a treehouse in a New York City apartment.
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You have to be alert. When my daughter, Sophie, came out of the womb, she was instantly alert, as if she had been here before. And she was a little disappointed that she was here again.
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Give me a blackboard. I can stop anything on a blackboard.
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Neither poems nor prose just a length of rope just the wet earth – that's the way home. Neither vodka nor bread just bursts of rage just more new graves – that's youth and that's love. Neither sleep nor waking neither joy nor laughter just tears in the night – so the rope, paper, knife.
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Quintilian [educational writer in Rome around A.D. 100] thought that the earliest years of the child's life were crucial. Education should start earlier than age seven, within the family. It should not be so hard as to give the child an aversion to learning. Rather, these early lessons would take the form of play--that embryonic notion of kindergarten.
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Be strong then, and enter into your own body; there you have a solid place for your feet. Think about it carefully! Don't go off somewhere else! ...just throw away all thoughts of imaginary things, and stand firm in that which you are.
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[Meryl Streep] just sent me an email, and I was like, "That's perfect." She was like, "Yes, Viola, now that you've just had your vow renewal...this is the best part of your life now. There's not anything that you don't know anymore in terms of what's good and bad out there, so now you can just fly." She's always imparting wisdom like that.
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Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
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The sage knows himself, but does not parade. He cherishes himself, but does not praise himself.
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We are trying to turn this program around so there is a great deal of enthusiasm with all of the kids. Fortunately they are all pushing each other.
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Make your own rules or be a slave to another man's.
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I'm raising my family in The Church, and I'm proud of that.
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I came back to the hood and got in those streets and started doing whatever it took for me to provide.
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Can you think of anything that can get better if we crowd more people into our cities, our towns, into our state our nation or on this earth?
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I like to write about things that are dark or twisted. Where the poetry seems to be is when you start in the dark and reach for the light - that's what makes it not depressing to me.
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Just got back from a 5 day camping trip. No phones, no Internet, no problem. It was great. Now time for a hot shower. I absolutely reek!
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The craziest thing is walking down the streets of New York and people recognizing me and asking for my photo. It has been pretty wild. I am used to getting spotted in ski towns, but I never thought it would happen in a place like this.
