Sarah Kay Quotes
But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
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A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.
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Everybody thinks they deserve something.
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We should read music in the same way that an educated adult will read a book: in silence, but imagining the sound.
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Minimalism now is a reaction to what came before. It's absolutely of its time. Music moved into the set theory thing, and moved out of it.
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Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
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Let me just say as one who has been speaker of the House, I've had to have a very thick skin about every kind of thing that was thrown at me.
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After having children, life becomes about living beyond yourself; about being bigger and better.
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I don't find anything upsetting or gross or degrading about fighting with a mental illness: Bipolar or Schizophrenia.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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My favorite novels allow me to imagine the characters afterward and what happened, and that I've witnessed a really great story, where the world goes on.
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I used homeopathy, acupuncture, yoga and meditation in conjunction with my chemotherapy to help me get stronger again after the cancer. I also chanted with Buddhist friends and prayed with Christian friends. I covered all my bases.
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Sir Rodin convinced my parents to have me committed; they are all in Paris to arrange it.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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Is it not worrying in itself that European Christianity is now barely able to keep Europe Christian? If we lose sight of this, the idea of Europe could become a minority interest in its own continent.
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The world is equally shocked at hearing Christianity criticized and seeing it practiced.
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There is no original truth, only original error.
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In the years that some of my colleagues have served - 20, 30 years - they’ve never seen it like this.
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And let's all be honest here; more of us believe in the American hero Sheriff Joe Arpaio's thorough investigation into your phony birth certificate and phony history than the phony media's smoke and mirrors.
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Through a huge duration of my life, someone has always picked up after me. And when you're on your own and you're trying to be independent, it's definitely different.
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Yes, people do come across the street to say hi, but as they approach and get near, my perception of space begins to dissolve, and a new interest takes over that is primarily emotional, and with it comes a desire to touch, which may be a human interest, but not the interest of my work.
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I deliberately fly in and out of LA for as small a time as humanly possible.
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But in Hiroshima, some people were wiped clean away, leaving only a wristwatch or a diary page. So no matter that I have inhibitions to fill all my pockets, I keep trying, hoping that one day I'll write a poem I can be proud to let sit in a museum exhibit as the only proof I existed.
